Submitting identical sites to search engines

Any advice?

[warrenk1]

I currently own a site with Yahoo hosting. The problem is all my page names don't have any of my keywords in them. I understand this would help to optimize my site. I don't want to change the name of these pages as it would make the current pages in the search engines obsolete. I was thinking of creating another site with another host. Would the search engines penalize me if I have two sites that are named similar:

ie.
site 1: www.video-games.com
site 2: www.videogames.com

I would make sure the pages are named differently (but the content on the page would be the same).

Thanks for any help,
Warren

[agerhart]

I wouldn't do it. Not the smartest way to go.

[warrenk1]

Thanks for the response.

What would you recommend? Just optimizing my page as much as I can? Is the keyword in the page name a huge factor in search engine placement?

Warren

[Hunter]

>Is the keyword in the page name a huge factor in search engine placement?

It is just one factor among many, but you should always try to use as many in your favor as possible.

Option One - If you are going to go through the "trouble" of creating a new site with new page names then you should not hessitate to change the content of each page at least a little bit as well. Just use it as an oppurtunity to incorporate new things that you have learned.

Option Two - Just create new content & pages for your existing site, naming them after your key/phrases.

Consistent traffic is not created through quick fix solutions. It is created through thoughtful and helpful web development.

[bufferzone]

If your two sites have dublicated content or could be seen by the spiters as having dublicated content, you are in truble. Some og them will penalize, even bann, you for this.

Submitting two identical sits to the same SE, IMHO, would be asking for truble.

I can point to different solutions. Use the robots.txt to insure that the spider only see one copy of each page or change the content so you do not have dublicated content.

Hope this will aide you
Regards
Kim

[ebgreen]

There are several companies that I know of that use drop shipers who build identical sites for their clients...minus a few changes by the new site owner. The text is identical and the sites are not penalized for having the exact text. The only thing that I would suggest is using different iP Addresses.