Moving content form Non-performing site to performing site - wihtout 301 Redirection

[HuptechWebseo]

I have 2 different websites: one have good amount of traffic and another have No Traffic at all.

I have a website that has lots of valuable content But no traffic. And I want to move the content of non-performing site to performing site. (Don't want to redirect)

My only concern is duplicate content. I was thinking of setting the pages to "noindex" on the original website and wait until they don't appear in Google's index. Then I'd move them over to the performing domain to be indexed again.

So, I was wondering If it will create any copied content issue or not?

What should i have to take care of when I am going to move content from one site to another?

[HuptechWebseo]

Hi Gaston Riera,

Thank you for replying, i want to do noindex my old domain and then move content to new domain.( No matter about authority and traffic loose)

Thanks

• about 15 hours ago

[GastonRiera]

Hi there!

As you can't make redirections, one of the best option is to set canonicals.
This would be the plan:

1. Copy the content into the high traffic site
2. Set canonicals from the "bad" to the correct page. Always, remember to do it page by page. Do not create canonicals sitewide.
3. Wait about 3 to 5 weeks and check whether all those pages are correctly indexed in google.
   NEVER set nofollow neither noindex rules.
4. Leave the canonicals up the site expires.

The key thing here is that with canonicals you transfer the authority to the new pages and you tell google that those contents are yours, preventing duplicate issues.

As other said, there are some other options:

• Letting the domain to expire, when its completely de-indexed move the content and let it to be reindexed.
• Noindex those pages and then move the content.

Even these options may have the same final result, take a long time and you will lose the current authority.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.

[TucsonAZWebDesign]

I recently had a domain of mine that was primarily just a joke blog that I wasn't trying to make money with expire. I learned the hard way that if you let a domain expire that's a nice little scam trap these web hosts setup to charge you some nonsense 50-100 dollar fee for neglecting the lease.

Unsure of what to do once I had made a similar website but wanted one of the 1500 long word blog's I just said screw it and posted that puppy. Being that the other site was no longer indexed, I encountered no issues and no duplicate content detectors I checked it with detected duplicatecontent.

So you should be good but I would definitely take it off the one page prior to moving it.

[Vijay-Gaur]

Hi There,

Your own plan of removing the site from indexes and reindexing the content from other domain can work. Although you have mentioned that you don't want to do it using a redirect, yet I recommend mapping 301 redirects and transferring the content to mapped pages. This would transfer the authority without much delay and also tell Google about the authenticity of the new website with the existing content.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Vijay