[mmadore]

I am in the process of cloning my pretty successful e-commerce site. I'm almost ready to turn the clone on…but I am hesitant to flip the switch. Here’s the main reason why:

I have very, very good natural search ranking (on Site A.) for some of my best keywords. I’m afraid that the duplicated content on Site B will somehow hurt my natural rankings on Site A.

Is this a legitimate concern? I would hate (not a strong enough word) if my natural keyword search results were negatively effected by turning on a clone that has so much of the same content.

Creating new item descriptions and tags and rewriting content etc for thousands of items and dozens of articles doesn’t make sense from a time standpoint…does it?

Any thoughts…positive or negative on clones would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Michael