Redirect vs Separate Sites

[PunkyLZ]

We have an SEO prospect who has two separate websites with the same content on both (basically they are lucky they aren't banned!) Both of the sites have been up for a significant period of time running this way. The www.abcdsite.com has a higher Google PR and about 4x more incoming links and search engine saturation than www.abcsite.com. The client would like www.abcsite.com to be their main site. How would you best handle this situation? Is there a way of redirecting or "pointing" the www.abcdsite.com to www.abcsite.com without loosing all of the incoming links? Initially I thought the client should "point" the www.abcsite.com to www.abcdsite.com.

Thanks in advance!

[bhartzer]

abcd should have a 301 Permanent Redirect to their abc site. You should also notify all the sites linking to abcd that the site is now abc and they should update their links.

[anablake]

I'm glad somebody got onto this topic.

We have two domain names pointing to one ip address. We were in the process of changing over to the new domain name when the old one began to skyrocket on the search engines and decided not to use the new one. (re: old domain name=www.leatherlust.net, new domain name=www.leatherlustlingerie.com)

The old one no longer has a PR after being PR5, the new one now has a PR6 yet no pages appear on google and both domains are appearing on other search engines. The new domain name was never submitted to any search engines but must have been picked up in a promotion when we had products on shopping.com and some of our backlinked sites have also changed to the new domain name I would guess due to the PR.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this matter without losing what we have acheived for both domain names? Resubmitting to the search engines with the new domain name would be considered spamming, no?

(related forum topic http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=23012)

[Mel]

If it is leatherlust that you want to be indexed, then just have a 301 redirect placed from leatherlustlingerie ot leatherlist.

This will solve the problem with Google, but Yahoo is having lots of problems at the moment handling 301s properly. If it were my site I would be inclined to simply remove leatherlustlingerie from being parked after Google has picked up the 301s to avoid problems with Yahoo.