: How should I set up the a second website in relationship to my first website for maximum SEO benefits? I'll try to make this simple and also explain why I"m doing this. I own website A,

@Barnes591

Is there a way to set up the second site side by side on the same hosting service so that Google sees it as ONE site but the end user of each site would not see the other one.


You might be able to pull it off with subdomains but that's probably not separate enough given your description. Any other tricks to show Google one thing and the users another gets into cloaking territory and I don't think you will like where you will end up if you try it. You would be better off just starting the second site's SEO from scratch and cross-linking the sites extensively for discoverability and link-juicing. I doubt you would have to wait very long to see results.

You might even consider a third approach which would be to combine stores from each of the sites as one unified cart. That way the WordPress sites becomes nothing but marketing arms but customers would be able to have a unified shopping experience and add product from either line to a single cart and checkout that way. You could subdomain the store only (store.wordpressA.com; store.wordpressB.com) and have that serve as the common thread.

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