HI Everyone,
Hope someone can help - I'm sure the answer is simple to lots of you, although it's a little bit complicated to explain, PLEASE STAY WITH ME!
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Here's the thing, A good few years ago (about
I started a site which showed people how I painted wildlife (for free) and then after a while I sold a CD showing demos, here's the old domain although it now shows my paintings instead
http://www.onlineartdemos.co.uk
Well as my paintings started to sell more I wanted to distance myself from the free Demos and CD and have a gallery type site and keep the old one ticking over as a seperate site completely as there were occasional Cd sales.
So I bought some cheap domains -
http://www.wildlifeart-online.com and
http://www.wildlifeart-online.co.uk plus my name -
http://www.jasonmorgan.co.uk seemed like a good idea at the time!!!
So I put the CD on the jasonmorgan.co.uk site and used my host 1&1 to show the art type stuff on the other sites. The oldest of my sites (onlineartdemos) get's by far the most hits and the wildlifeart-online.com gets some as well.
But looking into it a bit more (trying to learn as I go along!) I think I will most likely be penalized by the search engines for having these duplicate sites? I think that is right?
Here's the question - what the hell should I do now?
What would you do in my position? I don't particularly want to get rid of the wildlifeart-online.co.uk and com sites as they are both listed in Google and I would just get page not found errors in google searches if I change the sites completely.
I guess I just don't want to make any more mistakes so would REALLY appreciate any advice anyone could give - Thanks for your time
Jason