Two different domains with same content

Hi,
I have my new site which is updated from old site, more or less both sites has same content and meta tags. But now i m targeting only my new site, still the old site exist with the same meta tags. What can i do? Does it affect my ranking?

Old Site : www.ajsqu.com

Newsite: www.ajsquare.com

 

You may want to re-route the search engines visiting the old site by using appropriate 301 redirect in the .htaccess file.

 

How to re-route the search engines. Can you guide more details

 

You can Redirect old site to new site. Otherwise I thinks it's Duplicate Content Issue.

 

Can anyone please say the way to do 301 redirection clearly?

 

301 is also called permanent redirection which would tell the engines that the redirection is permanent and that you are moving the domain to a new domain. It can be configured from server level and can be checked online through largely available free tools.

 

Yes it will effect your ranking as its duplicated content...redirect one website to the other using 301.

 

Google and other search engines discourage duplicate content within or across domains.

 

Make a text file with the following code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.ajsqu.com/ [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ www.ajsquare.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Save it as .htaccess (with no extension after it) and save it to your root directory. It's also a good idea to do a redirect from non-www urls to www urls (or the reverse - just so long as everything goes to one place.) Here's the code with www redirects added:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.ajsqu.com/ [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ www.ajsquare.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

rewritecond %{http_host} ^ajsqu.com/ [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ www.ajsquare.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

rewritecond %{http_host} ^ajsquare.com/ [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ www.ajsquare.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

 

ok..Making text file with following code. Then what will be next? Can you please guide me in proper way?

 

Hi Joel,

I think you need to go trough Google Webmaster guidelines on how to do 301 Permanent redirect at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

Good luck with your 301!

 

Thank you atniz...It would be helpful to me. I m regular visitor to atniz.com

 

Do i need to do it for all my internal pages or is it enough only for main domain home page?