Two domains, one site, duplicated content

  • natescape

    (@natescape)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’m working on a site for my Crossfit gym, which is part of a two-gym company. They have a domain for each gym, and would like the content to change to reflect the originating domain. But quite a bit of the content is duplicated across the two domains (such as the FAQ, the daily workout, etc), so we can’t just set up two sites.

    Any ideas as to how to tackle this? I haven’t been able to figure out a way to make this happen.

    Thanks,
    Nate

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    As bad as it sounds, the answer is…

    Set up two sites.

    You can’t just clone the sites because there are some differences. That’s what makes it harder, otherwise you could set up some automated system that could sync the two sites.

    Just as a word of caution though, having the sme content on two different sites will ensure that at lest one, and possibly both, will be penalised for duplicate content and will basically have those pages dropped from all search engine result pages, so no one will ever find them thorugh searches. Normally if you have the same info, it’s best to have it in one central place. I do understand that in a case like yours it’s a lot harder to do, but it’s still something that you do need to think about as it could really affect both sites SEO.

    Thread Starter natescape

    (@natescape)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    There’s no plug-ins or systems that uses cookies or sessions or something to change parameters within the site? I’d love to have a session variable that said something like “Gym=X” or “Gym=Y” that would automatically send folks to the X data or the Y data when it exists (otherwise, they see the same data).

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    There’s nothing out of the box to do it. There may be a plugin that’s available, but I haven’t searched for anything before, only because I wouldn’t use it like that myself.

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