Please provide solution for my website? Duplicate content Problem

[Alexa.Hill]

1. I have 2 Domains with the same name  with same content. How to solve that problem? Do I need to change the content from my main website.

2. My Hosting is having different plans, but with the same features. So many pages were having the same content, and it is not possible to change the content, what is the solution for that?

Please let me know how to solve that issue?

[Vijay-Gaur]

Hi Alexa,

It's the worst situation from SEO point of  view, you have both the sites with same content, URL structure etc.

You should immediately do complete website 301 redirects, choose one domain to keep alive (https://www.vpsnine.com/  has domain authority of 30 and ideal candidate to be kept alive)  and transfer all URLs to their respective couterpart.

• Try to map each URL of existing website with 301 redirects to new domain URL equivalent. (example : > About-us page to be mapped with About-us page on new domain ). This will transfer most of the SEO value and authority to the new domain URLs and to the right pages.

• Register and verify your both domains with Google Webmaster Tools.

• Create a custom 404 page for the old domain which suggests visiting new domain.

• In a development environment, test the redirects from the old domain to the new domain. Ideally, this will be a 1:1 redirect. (http://www.example-old-site.com/...to http://www.example-new-site.com/...)

• 301 redirect your old domain to your new domain.

• Submit your old sitemap to Google and Bing. The submission pages are within Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Center (This step will make the engines crawl your old URLs, see that they are 301 redirects and change their index accordingly.)

• Fill out the Change of Address form in Google Webmaster Tools.

• Create a new sitemap and submit it to the engines. (This will tell them about any new URLs that were not present on the old domain)

• Wait until Google Webmaster Tools updates and fix any errors it indicates in the Diagnostics section.

• Monitor search engine results to make sure new domain is being properly indexed.

I hope this helps, let me know via your response if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

[David-Kley]

Sorry to hear you are having issues with your site. It appears that you have the two domains due to country targeting?

If this is true, I would choose one domain, and 301 redirect the other domain to the one you want to keep. If they have a different weight or authority, then I would check the domain weight to see which is higher. What you don't want to do is potentially redirect a less powerful domain to a weaker one, as that can slow down ranking progress.

If you are worried about country targeting, you can add in Language tags into your site and also submit a focus area in webmaster tools. This will also detect the language tags if they are properly installed.

Once this process is complete, make sure to fetch the chosen domain in Webmaster Tools to help speed up the indexing of the new domain.

Hope this helps!