Running 2 websites?

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Hey Guys,

I have had my website http://www.gdphotographer.co.uk for the last couple of years and it concentrates mostly on bringing in traffic on Southend based searchs (the town I live in). It does this very well and for lots of searchs I am in the top 3.

I have now just registered a new domain http://www.weddingphotographerinessex.com and my main aim for this new website is to bring in traffic from the whole of Essex and not just Southend.

The new domain is a complete copy of my old website but with the new domain name hoping to help for Essex searchs. Apart from that the website is the same as my old one apart from the odd "Essex wedding photographer" rather then "southend wedding photographer".

I am just wondering what your suggestions would be to get the best from this new website?

Meaning...

Should I design a second different website instead of keeping them both the same?

Should I keep them both the same to be consistent?

Should I register my new domain to a seperate google place page?

Any suggestions on getting the most out of my latest website I would be extremly greatful, and im sure your advice could also help any one else thinking of doing something like this.

Thanks again.

Gary
 
IF your going to have EXACTLY the same on both sites, then why bother, just set the new one up as a redirect to the original site, you only have the one to look after then.

That's what people do who have

*****.com
*****.co.uk

and so on.
 
whiteflyer said:
IF your going to have EXACTLY the same on both sites, then why bother, just set the new one up as a redirect to the original site, you only have the one to look after then.

That's what people do who have

*****.com
*****.co.uk

and so on.
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I thought of this but the main reason I did this was for google.

If I redirect straight to the old site, I wont have a Essex based domain being found by google. I also couldn't register it with google places?
 
if you leave as is google will penalise you for duplicate content. As above set up a redirect to redirect to your old, and concentrate instead on optimising that domain for various search terms
 
Gary.D said:
How will it be found by google if it is a website with no pages?
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all your set up at the moment does is duplicate your existing website with new keywords, which google will penalise you for.

A better approach would be to optimise your gdphotographer site for essex as well as southend and forward the new domain to it. That way you won't pay the duplicate content penatly. It is possible to optimise a site for more then one set of keywords.

This way, you'll also avoid the rumoured issue, that google lower results for new sites for the first 6 months/year.

It won't need to find any pages on your new website, because you'll just be forwarding to your nice, newly optimised older website instead
 
I think the weddingphotographerinessex is too generic and "too much of a mouthfull" for a web domain. It reminds me of a link farm type of domain name.

I'd concentrate on building on your existing identity which has the advantage of not being locked to a specific region or town by virtue of its name.
 
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