Choosing which URL to redirect to

301 redirect, most relevant URL

[wdrobfrancis]

I have two identical sites on two different URLS.

URL #1 is four years old
URL #1 has 20 inbound links on Google
URL #1 has 30 inbound links on Yahoo
URL #1 has 2000 pages indexed on Google

URL #2 is seven years old and keyphrase rich.
URL #2 has 20 inbound links on Google
URL #2 has 200 inbound links on Yahoo
URL #2 has 3000 pages indexed on Google but 99% of those indexed pages are in the supplemental results.

No doubt that one site needs to be redirected. My question is which URL is most relevant, the URL that’s older and keyphrase rich or the URL with fewer pages in the supplemental index? Welcome all opinions. Thanks in advance.

[martinibuster]

Both sites have a decent amount of age, although not a ton of links. Seems like the older one could be rehabilitated with it's own content. Could be a good opportunity.

What's stopping you from creating unique content for the seven year old site?

How well does the four year old site rank?

[wdrobfrancis]

Thank you for your reply.

Content was duplicated from URL #1 to URL #2. Creating new content us not an option. Neither site ranks in the top 50 results on any engine for any of their most important phrases phrases that are in the content and the logs, as well as in their inbound link anchor text.

Appears to me that they are getting penalized by all three engines, I suspect because of the duplicate content. 99% of URL #2 pages are in Google's supplemental results. URL #1 has approximately 10% of their pages in the supplemental results.