: Webmaster Tools - Preferred Domain and Google entries Our client has two websites with the same content: example.com somethingelse.com When a user searches in Google for "something else" the example.com

@Jamie184

There is no point having two websites with the same content and the same TLD. One is going to be seen as a duplicate of the other and Google is not going to list both in the SERPs. The domain name is only a small metric that Google uses in order to determine relevance in the results.

You are better of, either:


Concentrate on one domain. Pick one domain and redirect the other domain to it using a 301 redirect in .htaccess.
(As stated in comments, I don't believe you can set the "preferred domain" in the way you mention, in GWT. The preferred domain in GWT merely selects between the www and bare domain - this is better off done with a 301 redirect in .htaccess anyway.)


Or


Write entirely new, different content on the other domain.

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