Hi I own a website a, but that site has a duplicated content site b( ealier i had a misconception that i will get more traffic with 2 sites). Can you please suggest me, is it allowed or not.I have heard somewhere that search engines generally ban such sites. One more thing, as i have 2 domain names with same content, so if i remove one site content but i redirect that site to my main site. for example my main site is a and dupplicated site is b, so after removing the content from b, can i still redirect site b to a.. I mean is it allowed. Your suggestions are hightly appreciable. Thanksn and Regards, Ashish
IMO your best bet is to remove the least popular site and 301 redirect it to the more popular one. You won't get banned from search engines for having duplicate content however they really like original content + you will rank better if it only appears in one place. -Gaz
I agree with gaz...remove the content from the less active site and redirect the traffic to the more popular domain. Although you probably won't get black listed you are definitely not helping either of the sites.
you must start working your site and create your Content unique... if you really want both of your site Live, you can just create unique contents for each other. so that you may not have problem with search engines...
google search will not ban you because of duplicate content but you can be sure that google will not send visitors to your duplicate content. i think you must start to work for creating unique content
OK Thanks for replying guys, I will remove the content from less active site and redirect it to my main site. Thanks and Regards, Ashish K Arora