Two Domains - Same Content

What do I do now?

[web_young]

Before I started at the company I work for there was a silly thing done. There are two domains, we'll call them domain1.com and domain2.com. Both domains have exactly the same content, images, everything. In fact, domain2.com is setup to just pull the information from domain1.com (I'm not the technical guy so I don't know exactly how). Anyway, I want domain1.com to show up in the SERPs because it is the same name as the company. It is the domain that shows in Google but in other engines, like Yahoo or MSN domain2.com is the one showing up in most searches. What would you suggest that I do to get domain1.com to show up where domain2.com is?

[ukgimp]

Hello

Am I right in thinking that domain1 shows up in Google and domain2 shows up in MSM etc?

There are many options such as creating a site that is noticable different from the other. Hopefully they are hosted on different IP addresses.

A quick and dirty solotion would be to robots.txt them both. So domain1 only disallows MS and yahoo and domain2 disallows Google. Then you can start to optimise for the respective engines. Dont cross link them :), just work on standard link building for each.

The above is one option only, which may take more work than others.

I would be interested in some other opinions on this :)

[uncle_bob]

If the two sites are identical and you only want to use site1 then just do a 301 redirect from site2 to site1.

However if you are worried this may impact your serps in msn and yahoo, then why not do it by slowly adding 301 redirects to directories on site2 so that overtime the whole of site2 is redirected, and only then implement a site wide redirect.