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Here's my situation. I'd be grateful if somebody could come with any suggestions:
I have two sites with mostly academic content. One is top ten with Google but looks terrible as it was made 5 y ago. Other one is new and cool but is approx top 80 to 100 with all major keywords. Both sites have very similar content but not as similar to suggest any duplication issues.
Now I need to set up an online shop. The idea is to have this shop under a slash (/dir) with one of the academic sites. Only which one?
Obviously, I'd need to go with the new site to boost it's position (more files, more content etc.) What's your opinion?
Thanks
Are you scared of losing rank because it is going from a informational type site to commercial?
How difficult would it be to update the older site to make it look more modern?
Add a Nofollow tag to the link or add some content on the newer domain in another folder name with a link to the ecommerce site and in robots.txt keep keep this folder from being indexed. You can as well add a nofollow to the link to this new folder as well.
This way you can get the traffic from both sites using thee ecmmerce site more traffic mo sales.....
won't get indexed won't cause issue with any SE...
The old site cannot be redesigned as it is using frames. I dont want to risk the position. I've seen some highly ranked framed sites going out of top 100 after destroying frames and introducing a new design (yes, even preserving file names didn't help).
The only differences between these domains are a hyphen and tld.
In fact I wanted to put the shop under the new domain just because it would add relevant content and more pages to it and maybe help it climbing the top.
