If You Use The Same Database On 2 Different Sites On 2 Different Servers, Will It Hurt Your Seo?
SEO July 4th, 2009Same database.. only the static content is slightly changes and it is on a new server with a different URL. Thanks.
Same database.. only the static content is slightly changes and it is on a new server with a different URL. Thanks.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Hi,
It depends on how much unique (static) content you have in those 2 different versions of pages. Rule of thumb is to have at least 60% content difference for search engines to consider those pages as different pages.
Otherwise, search engines will see them as duplicate pages, and depending on which page they found first, and which page has more inbound links, they will consider one as the original page and discard the other as the duplicate page.
For you to be able to control which page search engines consider as the original page (so that you can focus your link building activities for that page), I would suggest adding code to the other version of the page to instruct the search engines not to index that page.
If you want both pages to be indexed by the search engines and get ranked, you need to make the content for these pages at least 60% different.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Generally speaking, seeing the exact same content on two different sites will hurt indexing for both sites. However, depending on how that content is structured, you can improve ranking with duplicate content for both sites.
It’s too complex to get into specifics, but so long as the content doesn’t appear in the same elements and the same order, and so long as the content doesn’t backlink to the same two sites or all the same sites, and so long as the incoming links to the content aren’t exactly the same for both sites, it shouldn’t hurt your rankings to duplicate content.