: What is the ranking impact of two domains on two different ip address for the same site I have a client that has an ecommerce website on xcart and a blog on a subdomain but on a different

@Vandalay111

There is no impact what-so-ever.

There could be an argument made to consolidate both sites into one domain (e.g. ditch the subdomain). Google considers blog.clientxcart.com and clientxcart.com to be two entirely different sites, so your available search authority is spread between two sites instead of one.

But yea, as for the IP situation you detailed - it has no impact.

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@Angela700

Depends what you mean by "Same".

If you're copying a site word-for-word, picture-for-picture from site to site, then there is a good chance that google won't index both copies of the site.

You're better off to use rel-canonical on one copy of the site where the href points to the original copy of the site.

Here's some videos from google's head of spam himself, Matt Cutts:

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