Why is one of my websites indexed in google, but the other is not?

  • If you google “Skylar Neese” you will see dollarscholar.com near the top, but why isn’t newsball.com there are well?

    NewsBall.com is an add on domain of the DollarScholar.com domain with my hosting service, would this have something to do with it? Meaning, I am paying for hosting for ds, & then I added a new domain under the service I am already paying for….

    On June 1st I published the Skylar Neese article at DollarScholar.com

    ON June 14th I launched NewsBall.com and published the same article. Over the last month I have added to that article extensively at NewsBall.com , as well as followup articles, & have posted a notice on the original article at DollarScholar.com telling all readers to go to NewsBall.com for the updated version of the article. I have even made sure every single ALT TEXT tag was filled out completely on every image of newsball.com’s articles so that they would be in google images, however none of them are, & just a few of DollarScholar.com‘s images from the Skylar neese article are – although I have not filled out the alt tags at dollarscholar.com because I preferred newsball.com to be indexed. It seems though that google is ignoring newsball.com and only showing DollarScholar.com

    DollarScholar.com has no ads, and newsball.com does have ads. Is this making it not indexed as much as it should be?

    Since I am the only one reporting on the Murder of Skylar Neese WITH the killer Shelia Eddy’s name, I should be seeing both of my websites at the top if I search “Skylar Neese Shelia Eddy” but I am not.

    [No bumping. If it’s that urgent after just 2 hours, consider hiring someone.]

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  • Duplicate content is not a good idea and will likely get either one of your sites penalised by Google. There are hundreds of metrics that go into how a site is listed in Google – please make a-lot of money making this happen, so just because you posted an article isn’t going to make it automatically go to the top of Google sadly ;(

    I notice you that don’t seem to have any SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) operating on your site really – Id’ suggest that you start by installing Yoast SEO plugin which is very popular, this may help your sites overall. I also like to hook up Google Webmaster tools to any site, and point to the the sitemap that gets generated by Yoast SEO – this seems to work well ??

    Thread Starter newsball

    (@newsball)

    ok great I will add Yoast SEO… what exactly do I do with yoast plugin? It just works behind the scenes helping me get indexed better?

    Its strange to me that my dollarscholar.com article of skylar neese murder is indexed and my newsball.com article of skylar neese murder is no where because I abandoned the dollarscholar.com version awhile ago and have since edited the newsball.com version alot more and spent time making the alt text image tags…… If I do a redirect 301 on the dollarscholar.com article will that remove the dollarscholar.com from the google rankings and give it to newsball.com instead? i don’t want to delete the dollarscholar.com article if I cant be sure that newsball.com will be ranked because then I will have neither on the first page!!!

    Yoast SEO plugin unfortunately doesn’t just ‘work’ in the background – you will need to take some time to go through the options and read-up on things you may not understand just yet. However, it’s a popular plugin and if you cant code this functionality yourself it will give you a great start if you spend some time configuring it correctly.

    The most important settings are title and description tags for SEO, these are set on individual posts and pages (along with archives). It would be a very good idea for you to install this on a testing site where you can learn how it works before deploying it to your live site(s). That way you can find out if it will suit you.

    It sounds like this is part of a bigger learning exercise about SEO for you – as I said it’s a very specialised, detailed subject. The world of SEO constantly changes too, so what is valid now may not be so relevant in just a few months time. I’d spend some time reading around this subject – then you can make a much better informed decision about what is right for you and your websites.

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