Hey all,
I have two sites. They are identical in every aspect. The only thing different is the name and visual look/creative of the site. Just s different "skin" and name.
Even the image names/sizes are identical. Truly, the only thing different between the two are visually what's in the images and the domain name.
They serve the exact purpose, and the second (clone) was designed for A-B testing so see which name/style/skin, etc was a better performer.
I've done a huge round of SEO work on one site, and it's working very well. I'd be content if the second site did just as well.
They are hosted separately, of course, and there is nothing related between the two of them. But they are hosted at the same company (same nameservers), and the domains are registered at the same place.
So my question is, can I 100% clone all of this SEO work and reuse on the other site? I've got like 30 pages of deep content. Very careful selection of keywords, meta tags, H1 usage, headlines - the whole nine yards.
These sites are so identical that I don't know why they wouldn't end up in the SERPs right next to each other.
But I'm worried that Google would sense this purely identical nature, and drop one or both sites. Then again, Google doesn't know I own both. So how could they penalize? If they could, I could just go out and 100% clone YOUR site - and thus get you dropped in the rankings.
Perhaps they look at date? The first site would remain unchanged in the rankings, but they'd assume the 2nd site was a copy and leave it ranked low?
If I have success with the SEO for one and want it for a second site - why couldn't I create 5 or 10 or 50 clones? I'd blanket the first few pages of Googles SERPs. Copy, paste, change domain, change visuals, done in about 45 minutes each.
Any ideas? In preparaton for your answers, if something needs to be altered between sites to make them less identical, what would it be, and how much change would be needed?
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