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I am currently working on web marketing (among other things) for a company which has two websites. one of those website is widgets.co.uk and the other is widgets.com. The design and copy for each site is different and the emphasis for each site is different. There is however a substantial amount of overlap between them and they are heavily cross-linked.
Frankly, I think this set-up is silly and that they should have 1 site but they are dead set on continuing with 2 sites. They want to use the .com site as a "portal" for both sites and for some other related sites they run. But this is a major problem for me as it seems that at some point in the past both domains pointed to the same site. Google quite reasonably droppped one of the domains from its index (widgets.com) - presumably for duplicate content. However all important links (dmoz, local listings sites etc.) point to widgets.com. Google appears to be ignoring these links - it hasn't ever visited widgets.com since we have had stats, and those links do not show up for the .co.uk
So do any of you have any ideas as to how I can:
a) get the .com site back in Google
b) get those links working for the .co.uk site without actually getting them all changed?
The two sites are *not* mirrors, but they used to be.
Presumably Google used to apply the dmoz etc links (pointing at the .com) to the .co.uk but now the sites are different it doesn't (obviously I cannot be sure of this though).
However I think that going back to having mirrored sites may be the answer (thought the client won't like it). Does anybody have any thoughts as to problems this might cause?
