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    • teconsite
      teconsite last edited by

      Hi,
      I have been asking about this case before, but now my question is different. 
      We have a new school that offers courses and programs . Its website is quite new (just a five months old)

      It is very common between these schools to publish the courses and programs in training portals to promote those courses and to increase the visibility of them.

      As the website is really new, I found when I was doing the technical audit, that when I googled a text snipped from the site, the new school website was being omitted, and instead, the course portals are being shown.

      Of course, I know that the best recommendation would be to create a different content for that purpose, but I would like to explore if there is more options.

      • Most of those portals doesn't allow to place a link to the website in the content and not to mention canonical.
      • Of course most of them are older than the new website and their authority is higher.

      so,... with this situation, I think the only solution is to create a different content for the website and for the portals.
      I was thinking that maybe, If we create the content first in the new website, send it to the index, and wait for google to index it, and then send the content to the portals, maybe we would have more opportunites to not be ommited by Google in search results.

      What do you think?

      Thank you!

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      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

        so,... with this situation, I think the only solution is to create a different content for the website and for the portals.
        I was thinking that maybe, If we create the content first in the new website, send it to the index, and wait for google to index it, and then send the content to the portals, maybe we would have more opportunites to not be ommited by Google in search results.

        I think the principal here is sound. However, you might also find part of the issue is down to site age / trust within Google. If these portals have been around for some time and are widely used, just doing this might not be enough. Sadly trust comes with time and work.

        Of course, duplicate content is never good, no matter who has it indexed first. Would you be able to create something amazing for your own site and then something more generic for the portals? Not knowing the scope of the issue, it's a little difficult to try and envisage what is happening exactly.

        -Andy

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        • teconsite
          teconsite @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

          Hi again Andy!
          I would advice to create different content. They will decide what to do. The portals are quite important, and its authority is higher. This website is too new.

          I would tell them both things: different content and also sending that content inmediatly to the index from Google Webmaster Tools.

          Thanks for your time!

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