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Upon a basic inspection using Google and keywords, neither site appears to be ranking, except for Google local business page.

And that is so far for only one specific keyword. Where one website shows and the others Google+ page does.

From looking at the replies and doing more reading on this I have 2 options.

1. Make 1 site the only site and redirect the others to it. Create landing pages for each suburb serviced with unique content

2. Recreate each site with unique content with a link to the other sites.

Essentially remove most if not all duplicate content (words and images)

Am I correct? And if the group wishes to keep the individual business names option 2 would be best ?

Cheers

Its the same ccTLD. and it appears to be 2 or 3 different businesses, different domain names, run under a group business from 2 (possibly 3) different areas.

It appears that it may have been an attempt to link 3 businesses after a buyout.

But the content is simply duplicated across both working domains with no changes at all.

Hello,

I suspect I know the answer to this but would like to have it confirmed.

I have been speaking to a company the last couple of weeks who have 2 domains with the exact same content. Possible a third but they haven't supplied a link.

This from all I've read would be a huge problem for ranking and SEO. What would be the best way to deal with this ?

I did do a search and found articles/questions on same content on the same site and in articles etc but nothing about exactly the same websites on 2 domains.

Cheers David.

Thanks Rick. When you say unless links are involved what do you mean?

Having looked at that white board Friday I did find it helpful.

I did just go look at wotif.com.au and lastminute.com.au one of which I do recall using subdomains to divide their sites with. Neither appear to be using it any more. Which would be another indication that subdomains are in fact bad.

Seems to be subdomains are not really the way to go which from my point of view is a shame. It makes more sense to work that way.

The main reasoning behind wishing to use a subdomain is more organisational.

Simply looking at having the subdomain house information on a particular topic or item, for instance screwdrivers in Brisbane. Any deals, latest arrivals etc could be found on that particular subdomain. And further to that thinking being able to redirect to a different page for 2 weeks and then bring the original page back with out changing or adding a new url on which it can be found.

Possibly just me and the way I like things organisationally but the idea appealed and I was wondering if there were any benefits or for that matter negatives to running a particular section that way.

For example if we have a domain www.bobshardware.com.au and we setup a subdomain sydneysupplies.bobshardware.com.au and then brisbanescrewdrivers.bobshardware.com.au and used those in ad campaigns. Each subdomain being redirected back to a single page such as bobshardware.com.au/brisbane-screw-drivers  etc.

Is there a benefit ?

Cheers

Ok thank you. That's what I have been doing, examining the returned results. And it appears to me that Google does indeed treat the wording differently, it doesn't change the result much though.

Where keywords used by people finding this business lack the connector words the content of the site needs to use them for text to make sense and flow.

I was looking for a way to at least link the phrasing to help keep the page ranking.

Any suggestions ?

Hello and straight to the point,

How does google treat connector words (the, in, on etc) in relation to keywords ?

For example if people are searching for "hardware sydney" but the content on the page uses the phrase "hardware in sydney" does this make a difference to the way Google views the page content?

Cheers

David.

Its the same ccTLD. and it appears to be 2 or 3 different businesses, different domain names, run under a group business from 2 (possibly 3) different areas.

It appears that it may have been an attempt to link 3 businesses after a buyout.

But the content is simply duplicated across both working domains with no changes at all.