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    My satellite website is ranking better than my actual site. Why and what to do?

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    • sauspiel
      sauspiel last edited by

      This is our website: www.sauspiel.de and this is the satellite website. As the satellite site has a better ranking for the keyword "schafkopf" since two or three weeks we wonder how this could happen and what would be best to change it or improve the situation. Shall we take down the satellite site, redirect to the "real" site or try to downgrade? And what would you consider to be the (strongest) reason? Any suggestions?

      Thanks a lot for your help and assessment!

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      • mark_baird
        mark_baird last edited by

        It's the lack of content on your main site that is causing your issues. Your satalite site has much better titles and content for tour keyword.

        assuming you want to move the traffic to your main site I would move the content to my main site and 301 everyting from the satalite site to the corespondent page of your main site.

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        • JakubMovic
          JakubMovic last edited by

          Thanks to Matt Cutts, that EDM no longer working 😛

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          • BrianJGomez
            BrianJGomez last edited by

            I think Mark has the right idea, I would build out a landing page on your main site for the keyword, then 301 the emd back to it. Bottom line, emd results are short lived.

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