Googlebot scans but pages not added to Google

aridolan · 07-06-2004, 01:52 AM

I have two identical web sites. One is http://www.aridolan.com hosted by one company, the other is http://www.arieldolan.com hosted by another company.

I load a new (same) page to both sites. The next day I search for it in Google (entering the exact title). The page on one of the sites is found, the page in the other is not. Even after a long time (weeks, months), Google only finds my page on the the first site but not the other.

This happens consistently, whenever I upload a new page.

Looking in the stats of the "bad" site, Googlebot is reported to scan the site every day. However, it does not seem to add the pages.

What is the explanation to the fact that new pages of one website appear immediately in Google, while the same pages in the other site never do, although it is scanned by Googlebot every day.

Thanks,
Ariel

sem4u · 07-06-2004, 02:19 AM

Google is probably ignoring one of the sites because it is a duplicate. Google do not want duplicate sites appearing in their SERPs.

aridolan · 07-06-2004, 03:12 AM

Thanks for the answer.

Is there any way I can make Google process the second site instead of the first?

Alternatively, what changes can I make so that Google will not regard the two sites as identical?

awall19 · 07-06-2004, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by aridolan

Thanks for the answer.

Is there any way I can make Google process the second site instead of the first?

Alternatively, what changes can I make so that Google will not regard the two sites as identical?

get more links into the first one. redirect links pointing toward the second one to the first.

to make it not seem similar I am ultra conservative in this manner. Googles current duplication filter is not that good, but will get better over time. at the very least I say use a different template, but I also change filenames and try to change at least a small amount of the content.

aridolan · 07-06-2004, 11:18 AM

Do you think that removing certain pages from the second site (currently indexed) will make the corresponding pages in the first site indexed by Google?

awall19 · 07-06-2004, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by aridolan

Do you think that removing certain pages from the second site (currently indexed) will make the corresponding pages in the first site indexed by Google?

maybe. maybe not. I guess my main question is why would you want multiple partial sites?

aridolan · 07-07-2004, 01:10 AM

Your question is right. I got into this situation for historical reasons, but now some of my pages are indexed on one site and some on the other, and I assume there are links out there pointing to pages on both sites.

I would like to redirect my pages from my second site to my original site. I do not have an access to the server, so I have to do it in code (asp.net). Does Google regard redirection by server code as legitimate? Is it equivalent to 301 redirection from the server?