Same website content on two different URLs

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dazzylazy

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What happen if two different URLs are having same website content on both the URLs?

Example,

xyz.com and abc.com with same content on both the URLs.

So, in this case what to do?
 
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420lounge said:
If one of the URL is the preferred version, you can use the Canonical tag .....Or You can use Noindex tag in the duplicate URLs Content...
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Hi, Like how to apply canonical tag? or Noindex tag? I haven't worked on this type of things. Can you please guide?
 
different domain? IF same domains, then it will create issues for ranking.
 
To avoid duplicate content issues, implement a 301 redirect from one URL to the other or use a canonical tag to indicate the preferred version.
 
mandom said:
To avoid duplicate content issues, implement a 301 redirect from one URL to the other or use a canonical tag to indicate the preferred version.
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How to use canonical tag?
 
You can use 301 redirect for one URL you wanted to use as a primary one and set up permanent redirect so it shows content is permanently moved
 
dazzylazy said:
How to use canonical tag?
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To use a canonical tag, add this line to the HTML code of the duplicate page:

<link rel="canonical" href="URL_of_preferred_page" />


Replace "URL_of_preferred_page" with the preferred page's URL. This tells search engines that the current page is a copy of the preferred page, helping to combine ranking signals for the preferred page.
 
It's better to make an implement a 301 redirect from one website to the other . It will also help with ranking since the one website "supports" the other.
 
dazzylazy said:
What happen if two different URLs are having same website content on both the URLs?

Example,

xyz.com and abc.com with same content on both the URLs.

So, in this case what to do?
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Looks like they're different websites, if they're both yours, you could redirect one page to the other. Redirect the least performing to the other. It makes no sense competing against yourself unless that competition would help.

If they're on the same website, question is do you really need to have the same content twice on two different pages? Most times it's no. Redirect one to the other.
 
Choose one of the domain as your primary domain and set up a 301 redirect from the secondary domain to the primary one. Implement canonical tags on one of the URLs to indicate to search engines which version of the content is the preferred one.

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/preferred-page">
 
If two URLs have the same content, choose one as the main URL and redirect the other to it using a 301 redirect. You can also use canonical tags to specify the main URL.
 
Based on my knowledge, what you can do is try choosing one URL as a primary one, use canonical tag and also use 301 redirect to avoid penalties from google and also you can use no index tags as well.
 
I also vote for 301 redirect, it will keep your rankings.
 
A 301 redirect from first to second should work fine in your case.
 
Avoid Duplicate content It will be better for you mate.
 
They'd end up competing with each other. If you own both sites. One site should probably a redirect URL to the other one that you prefer to be indexed on Google.
 
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