General Search Engine Marketing Issues Forum

Currently i have a bit of an unusual set-up with the websites for my business and hopefully you can help me decide what the best solution is for the future.

I have a content rich information style site on one domain that ranks position 5-8 on page 1 of google for my most important 2 word keyword (and this keyword brings 6 to 8 times more searches than the next best.

I then have a shopping cart (it also has enough content to stand on its own as a fully fledged website) that directly relates to the content site (there are links in the nav bar and other places throughout the content site) that sits on another domain.

This ranks page 7 (up from page 15 after some minor SEO work by a company) for the same important keyword but also ranks page 1 or 2 for many other niche keywords and apart from the main keyword i concentrate on, it holds its own against the content site and does bring a bit of traffic.

Do you think i should burn the rankings on the shopping cart and move it onto the same domain as the content site, 301 redirect the domain to the content site domain and hopefully then increase my page 1 rankings for that content site?

Or do you think i would be better off keeping it as it is and Just work on getting the shopping cart rankings up for my main keyword and continuing to try and improve the content site so it remains on page 1 or hopefully climbs higher? Which is what i really want to do, try and break into the top 3 or 4.

Google returns 2.2 million results for the important 2 word keyword so i guess it isn't an ultra competitive keyword phrase but it isn't a walk over that's for sure.

I'm rebuilding my shopping cart regardless so if i am going to do this now would be the time to do it.

I'm just not sure if i am wasting my time trying to get 2 sites in the top ten for this keyword phrase and I'm not sure if bringing them together will have much effect on the rankings of my content site.