: If two domains have same content and are owned by the same company, then your own pages are competing against yours which in turn will affect your ranking and SEO value is split. There

@Carla537

If two domains have same content and are owned by the same company, then your own pages are competing against yours which in turn will affect your ranking and SEO value is split. There are two different ways to handle it depending on your situation.

If you want both the domains to co-exist:

If you want both the domains to coexist, then you should pick one of your domain as primary domain and do rel="canonical" to your primary domain url. Canonical signals search engines that they are attributed to each other and SEO value gets passed to your primary page.

If you want to shut down one domain and live with the other domain

if you think that you want to avoid the overhead of maintaining two different domains, then you can do 301 permanent redirect to your primary domain from the other domain. After certain point in time, search engines will understand it and start showing up your primary domain. Once the traffic dies to your secondary domain, then get rid of the secondary domain.You should convert your internal links to point to new domain as well.

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