hi friends, i have a question for the clone site. my friend site (directboattransport.com) is the clone of directboatshipping.com. he have a problem with the site ranking. his site is in top 30 ranking in google searching but after few days site raking down. he do proper SEO for the site but site ranking is improve just for few days. after 3 or 4 days site is down there ranking. please help him and tell me what he do for the best ranking ?
hi clone site is fine, but make sure that conetent is different, and the images are unique. duplicacy harms the ranking .
After about a week, it's a real ranking. New indexed pages normally have higher rank than the older. It's time to start seo.
It seems like one website on two domains... This results in duplicate content. This is the reason for drop in ranking. Out of the two only one site can make it to the high rankings (the one Google discovers first)
google like fersh and unique content website.If clone site having same content and information then why google rank in serch list. definatly it rank will derop
i think google will consider it as a duplicate sites because both site looks same and have same content as well. so according to Google algorithm one of your site will consider as a duplicate site and one consider as a unique one so you just got benefit of only one site, and if you using different content , images and do some changes in design also then your both site will consider as a unique one ...
This isn't entirely true. I had a web site that ranked very highly for a competitive keyword (3000 exact searches per month). I was ranked #2 or #3 for the most part for this keyword. Someone then copied my exact site almost verbatim (including my blog posts...yeah I was pissed) and I didn't notice until they actually ranked above me for the same term!! They literally copied word for word 95% of my site and somehow outranked me! This was also after the Panda update which was supposedly put into place to stop things like this. My site was clearly there first judging from the domain registration date of the infringing site. I ended up sending google and godady a DMCA takedown notice since they were blatantly infringing on my copyrights and they complied and took the site offline and google de-indexed it for a few days. Then the person changed their site up, and replied to the Google DMCA notice and were reindexed, and reindexed ahead of me! I was pretty upset that they just copied my unique content and reaped the results. Also, Panda update apparently doesn't always work, or doesn't work very well if this was able to happen!
duplicated content is not recommended by google. try to add original and quality content to achieve better pagerank.
When you mean clone, do both of you use the same content on your pages? If so, that could be your problem - since we all know that Google hates duplicate content. But if not, and you know that both of you have unique content - then it might be that your competitor is way doing better than you in both linking to sites and optimizing their portals for user friendly search results.