I have recently (in the last 3 weeks) built a new website. It's domain is "fixing-widgets-alternatives" I get most of my hits for "fixing widgets" which is not the topic of my website, and from my PR4 site. Now, a few notes, the site is PR0 so I re-vamped the whole thing, soup to nuts, from the entire look to the text and images. Google indexed me 3 times in the last 3 weeks but only my index page. The only other pages indexed are the first 5 pages (which I have changed twice since the original inclusion, but the cache's haven't changed, plus I have added 15 more pages of content which weren't spidered at all since the last inclusion, on Nov. the 3rd, or the one on the 28th of October). I am thinking of abandoning the current domain name for one that won't give me useless hits, but am wondering if google will consider the new site with the old information duplicate content? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Three weeks? Slow down, don't be hasty...
Wait five more weeks and then decide. Spend that time improving the titles and descriptions of your pages so that you don't get so many mis-targeted clicks.
If you do change domains, use a 301-Moved Permanently redirect from pages on your old domain to the new ones. This tells the search engines, "Yeah this is duplicate content, because we moved!" In most cases, you'll get credit for the incoming links to the old domain transferred over to the new domain for as long as the 301s stay in place.
Jim
