Canonical URL's For Two Domains
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We have two websites, one we use for Google PPC (website 1) and one (website 2) we use for everything else. The reason is we are in an industry that Google Adwords doesn't like, so we built a whole other website that removes the product descriptions as Google Adwords doesn't approve of many of them (nutrition).
Right now we have that Google Adwords approved website (website 1) no-index/no-follow because we didn't want to run into potential duplicate content issues in free search, but the issue is we can't submit it to Google Shopping...as they require it to be indexable. Do you think removing the no-index/no-follow from that website 1 and adding canonical URL's pointing to website 2 would resolve this issue (being able to submit it to Google Shopping) and not cause any problems with duplicate content?
I was thinking of adding the canonical tag to all pages of website 1 and point it to website 2. Does that make sense?
Do you think that would work?
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Hi Jeff,
If the content on website 1 and 2 is the same and you do a page-by-page mapping and canonicalization, then you'll be fine. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.
Here are Google Guidelines for using canonicals FYI.
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