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Two verisons of my website, bad for search engines?

by Christophe Young
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I was wondering if someone can offer some advice here.

I have my website which is www.mywebsite.com and I'm re creating it because I don't want to deal with the "do it yourself" program I used to build the site.

So, I'm recreating a similar site with the domain www.mywebsite.NET. I own both domains. Once I finish the new site I want both domains to redirect to the new site.

Is it bad to have two versions of my site out there in the mean time... .com and .net? Will I get penalized for duplicate content?

If so, then I heard there is a way to have the search engines NOT index my new site. Anyone know how to do that?

Thanks in advance!
#bad #engines #search #verisons #website
  • Profile picture of the author ehicks727
    Originally Posted by Christophe Young View Post

    I have my website which is www.mywebsite.com and I'm re creating it because I don't want to deal with the "do it yourself" program I used to build the site.

    So, I'm recreating a similar site with the domain www.mywebsite.NET. I own both domains. Once I finish the new site I want both domains to redirect to the new site.
    I'm not sure why you would do this. Why wouldn't you just design the new site on a new host, and just point mywebsite.com to the new host when you're done?? Forget the .net domain.... well, why don't you use it for something totally different, like a blog or something to send links to the .com domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    This is a bit hard to follow - both websites are different at the moment.

    If you have 2 website absolutely identical - then yes. Goolge will most likely only favour one.
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    • Profile picture of the author Christophe Young
      Yes, it's confusing.

      My current website is set up to use Paypal and I'm not able to use clickbank so I'm setting up a new site that will use clickbank, thus allowing me to get an affiliate program going and set up my site on their marketplace. I also want to do some other things with the new site like test different squeeze pages. I can't do any of this with my existing site because it's made from a newbie do-it yourself program with lots of restrictions.

      So basically, I want to make sure my current site doesn't get penalized if I have a similar one out there at the same time. My current site is ranking very well for top keywords in my niche. I don't want to screw that up.
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