Quick question about domain names

[PokerSpnsor2-0]

Hi just a quick question here,

Can you become sandboxed for having a duplicate domain name for example

xwww.example.comx as one website and a completely different website xwww.example.orgx


Thanks in advance for any help

[WinYourWayKyle]

I dont believe this is the case.
I believe search engines see all of these different extensions as different websites.
Maybe someone else can give you a concrete answer, but I am fairly sure this is how it works.

[Former Member 14]

I'm not Google but I've never heard of it happen before.

What I think is important, you understand why Google initiated sandboxing. Figure that out and make appropriate adjustments to your domains and you shouldn't be effected by sandboxing

Don't mean to give a cryptic reply but wont for obvious reason explain what you need to do or every man/woman and their dog will be doing it. Which will make the sandboxing usless. Which would be silly because the SB is a good thing.


Cheers



Dave

[Webzcas]

Hi just a quick question here,

Can you become sandboxed for having a duplicate domain name for example

xwww.example.comx as one website and a completely different website xwww.example.orgx


Thanks in advance for any help

In a word no. Search engines would treat them as different and seperate sites in their own right.

Also the sandbox is a bit of a misnomer. It hasn't actually been around as such for about 5 years or so now.

I'm sure there are others with reliable inside contacts LOL who might be able to answer this better.

[Yurii]

I think Google will determine it has separate website since they are in different domain names possible the outcome for that have two different websites.

[Webzcas]

Unless they are identical mirrors of each other content wise, or one redirects to the other. Google, Yahoo, Bing, whoever, will treat each domain name as a seperate site - And so they should.

[graham]

As long as the content is different on both they should show up fine in the SERPs

[jctroy440]

Ma Google won't penalize you for different extensions. I already went through that on one of their blogs late last year. They will take notice if the sites are exactly the same though so be sure and have completely different content, page names, etc etc..

[mcharalambous]

Hi there,

You won't necessarily be 'sandboxed' as such, but as you are not the original website attempting to display information regardng 'example' then you will have a natural disadvantage under someone who has been there much longer, e.g the example.com over your new example.org.

Providing your site has better information, including the right search terms of course you should see no problems and will gradually move up the rankings.

The main point i'd offer here is; don't go crazy with links, Google isn't stupid - it knows that a new domain won't generate lots of links quickly, so be smart and just offer natural looking links, very slowly for the first few months or you'll 'sandbox' it yourself.

The only disadvantage you have is a .com or .co.uk (if in the uk of course) is generally better than a .org or .net.

Good Luck!

[meaganandersen]

Hi just a quick question here,
Can you become sandboxed for having a duplicate domain name for example
xwww.example.comx as one website and a completely different website xwww.example.orgx
Thanks in advance for any help

IF you own both sites and it has the same pages and contents, you will be penalized. BUT if you don't own the .org domain then the answer is 'No'.

[PokerSpnsor2-0]

Thanks for the help guys, I think I have figured out my sandbox reason which hopefully will be fixed very soon.

Glad to hear it is not an issue for domains thanks again much appreciated the help

[best.hands]

Hi just a quick question here,

Can you become sandboxed for having a duplicate domain name for example

xwww.example.comx as one website and a completely different website xwww.example.orgx


Thanks in advance for any help

There is no sandbox, but a filter. In the case given, either of the domain can be filtered depending on the settings employed. For instance, .com is a copy of .org both in the name and contents, Google will decide which will represent the other and filter the dupe. However, when .com is only a copy of .org by name and not by contents, both can standout and filter of either is less possible. Moreover, rapid link velocity can also trigger a filter. The balance of anchor text on links used is also observed. As others believe, to avoid the filter, a site must not be a duplicate, link growth should be gradual, anchor text should appear natural.

[jctroy440]

The domain name in itself will not draw any Google punishment unless the content is exactly the same. Please keep in mind that Google uses over 200 different factors when determining SERP ranking. Don't get too hung up on concentrating on any one of them. Use common sense, read the Google narratives and watch the videos by Matt and you'll gain a more relaxed approach.

[best.hands]

The domain name in itself will not draw any Google punishment unless the content is exactly the same. Please keep in mind that Google uses over 200 different factors when determining SERP ranking. Don't get too hung up on concentrating on any one of them. Use common sense, read the Google narratives and watch the videos by Matt and you'll gain a more relaxed approach.

Couldn't agree more with jctroy's statement.

All Google wants is for webmasters to appear natural on their cry for rankings. Thus, spotting any irregular behavior is where they're putting more conditions on, so the site with overwhelming number of excuses to those filtering conditions gets the proper designation on the rankings. Meaning, the more you are clean and natural with your campaign for rankings, the better. That goes to saying you forget observing those factors, be authentic and put more focus on providing your target audience the kind of contents that would stop them from searching for alternative source and will have them say, "look here, I found a treasure we can share".

[manuelinbmw]

I dont see a penalty coming from the domain name. Just take it slow on your link building if you have to let that site sit for a while.

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