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Duplicating a Website (Setting up the same site on a new domain) SEO

by GlobalPay
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Hello Everyone,

I own www.magicpay.net which is a merchant services site.
Now, this site has been around for some time has has good reputation along with good rankings which I am not about to screw up.

For marketing purposes, we need to duplicate this website to another domain, (not touching anything with the original domain, just duplicating it to a new one). How can I make sure that my rankings are not affected on magicpay.net?

P.S. I don't care if Google will not read the new domain, because the new domain is not intended to be found on Google anyways...

Thanks,
Michael.
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  • Profile picture of the author jefftaylor64
    You can use a canonical link on each page of the duplicated site. Or you could block Google from crawling the duplicated site with a robots text file
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    See if you dont want to rank the new website on google and only looking to drive traffic via paid ads and marketing then best is to block the google bots from crawling the website because if they will crawl then it would be possible that your rankings might affect a bit.
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  • Profile picture of the author luciesmazanska
    Duplicating a Website (Setting up the same site on a new domain) SEO

    Answer: If you want to copy your entire site. The most popular and powerful website copying program is HTTrack, an open source program
    available for Windows and Linux. This program can copy an entire site, You can download HTTrack for free from HTTrack Website Copier - Free Software Offline Browser (GNU GPL).
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Well, yes. The previous comments make sense. The fastest and easiest way is to create a robots. txt file and then disallow all the search engine bots in it for your duplicate website.
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    Why would the old domain be affected? If you're doing nothing to it, nothing should change.

    Originally Posted by GlobalPay View Post

    Hello Everyone,

    I own www.magicpay.net which is a merchant services site.
    Now, this site has been around for some time has has good reputation along with good rankings which I am not about to screw up.

    For marketing purposes, we need to duplicate this website to another domain, (not touching anything with the original domain, just duplicating it to a new one). How can I make sure that my rankings are not affected on magicpay.net?

    P.S. I don't care if Google will not read the new domain, because the new domain is not intended to be found on Google anyways...

    Thanks,
    Michael.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by GlobalPay View Post

    P.S. I don't care if Google will not read the new domain, because the new domain is not intended to be found on Google anyways...
    Then why are you posting the question here for? Makes no sense.

    Tons of companies use TONS of domains for marketing.....but forward the domains to the real site.

    Like...ebaymotors.com....

    Why on earth would you duplicate the site?

    There is no reason to need 2 sites with the same thing....where one is for "marketing" purposes.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author bangthetable
    Originally Posted by GlobalPay View Post

    Hello Everyone,

    I own www.magicpay.net which is a merchant services site.
    Now, this site has been around for some time has has good reputation along with good rankings which I am not about to screw up.

    For marketing purposes, we need to duplicate this website to another domain, (not touching anything with the original domain, just duplicating it to a new one). How can I make sure that my rankings are not affected on magicpay.net?

    P.S. I don't care if Google will not read the new domain, because the new domain is not intended to be found on Google anyways...

    Thanks,
    Michael.
    You can take the backup of your old domain and move that all the files to the new domain. Now both domains are having the same information.

    You call use the Canonical tag to your each pages of old website and just use the nofollow tag in the robots.txt file of your new domain.
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