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I've had similar questions regarding duplicate content. Thanks for the helpful answer and link!

Just an opinion... I own a business and am always looking for space.  I look at websites, I get emails, people tell me about new listings.  I've been doing this for years. If I see space on a website, I quickly look at location, square footage, price, condition, configuration.   In ten seconds most listings are eliminated, most of the rest are eliminated in under 30 seconds.   I really really don't want to call an agent because they want too sell.  They want to ask questions.  They want to call me next week.  I don't have time for any of that.   If I have any interest in the property at all I will drive there to see the location and the exterior.  I call an agent last and when I call, I will not be wasting his time or mine. I am sure that lots of people have a different method.  If your clients know what they want and are busy people then just give them access to the information - especially if it can be found on other websites. Just so you know.... the places where I do the most looking are the websites that make things easy for me to see... what is new, prices, photos, locations, taxes, etc.  There are lots of real estate websites offering access to the same properties.   I check these websites a lot.  I look at websites that don't do a good job of the above a lot less often - if at all. Most of the time when I have called an agent, is right after receiving an email of a new listing or a price change.  These are emails that allow me to subscribe to only those parts of the area where I have an interest and the types of properties that are suitable for me.  They are the people who I call.

Had the same question, these answers are helpful, thanks!

Nice coincidence! Thanks for letting me know, DickensLawGroup. So glad it helped.

yes you are right . i was asking for same, thnx for help

It's great to see you working though your thoughts and options here, Paul, with the help of our community. Keep up the good work, everybody!

I've wondered the same thing, thanks for the helpful answer!

I've experienced the same thing, but it wasn't very long before the MozBar caught up. Sam's answer was helpful too!

Thanks so much for your reply. I actually disallowed searching via the robots.txt file and will keep it that way until my site gets larger/older more naturally. Because I'm reaching out to each of the major businesses posting these programs in efforts to get them to update each of their programs to unique content I hope be able to index them within a couple years, while removing any programs that don't get attention from their providers. I hope I don't get in trouble for photos posted on my site from the other site. They're user-driven photos so maybe those are treated differently?

I've had similar questions, thanks for the great info everyone!

Hello George, Thank you for your response and help! It seems like doing both is the way to go (assuming no duplicate content, GSC and Moz are being monitored). I did have a couple quick follow-ups just so I’m clear what you meant and you don’t mind: When you mentioned “…keeping things on the primary domain would be a better idea over time if …” – Did you mean that if it’s part of a regional strategy we probably shouldn’t do both and just stick to the sub-folders? I know that there’s tons of advantages to just using the sub-folder (especially from a resources/authority/link perspective) but assuming we need the separate domain I just wanted to be sure of you meant. Also, if the regional site should naturally win out for a local search but we would want to use ‘second’ domain for local searches would it be best to not do both approaches? – I imagine it would depend on the value being sent from the priority site vs. ability to rank on its own but though I’d ask. Please let me know if I could provide any further updates that could help. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Thanks again! Best,

Good Point Martijn Scheijbeler, I was thinking in that option, but I have a question. Do you know where I can found a content provider. I had a lot of problem with copywriters in the past. And this point I preffer to pass of content creators ( Freelancers) I hire some company that can sell unique content with some quality control

I've had this same question, thanks for the answers all!

Hey K3, Looks like you have bigger fish to fry, your host domain is throwing a 503 server error. No server = no content = no robots.txt  will be able to be found until that is resolved. Error still happening as of this post: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/https://k3syspro.com

Thanks Paul. Makes a lot of sense and clears things up.

Hey there, Those links are absolutely considered as back links by Google and are able to accumulate PR / link juice, as long as they are FOLLOW. It doesn't make a difference if they're indexed or not. Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin

Wow, there are a lot of things going on here so hopefully I've understood it all correctly. By the sound of it, your client purchased the supplier then populated that supplier's website with their own content? If this is the case, I'd expect their biggest issue will be the duplication. If they've now got 2 websites with the same content, it's very likely this alone with limit the second site's ability to rank well. While having duplicate product descriptions isn't the end of the world, it certainly doesn't help. In this scenario they've taken unique content and replaced it with duplicate and so the drop you're seeing is exactly what I would have expected. My question is what's the best thing to do in this case so that the rankings will be back to higher positions and they'll get back their traffic. If I were in your shoes, I'd be looking to get as much uniqueness happening in that content as I could. Since the supplier's site had original content for the same products, you could try reverting to that for the time being. You can test it with a single category as a proof of concept and if that works, move ahead from there. If you're going to try that, make sure you block the subdomain via Robots.txt so Google isn't crawling those old descriptions there or you'll end up in the same position This is all general info since I can't look closer at the site. It could also be a site structure/speed/navigation/page title/meta description problem etc. If you're comfortable sending me the links I'd be happy to take a closer look. Feel free to drop it here or PM.