Same site on two servers.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jim Munro: Hi Alina. :)
  
  You should report this issue to your hosting company. The two sites are on the same server.
  
  whatareuhungryfor  ; com.
   ;  ; 74.43.252.183
  
  *complete*
  mozzeronis  ; com.
   ;  ; 74.43.252.183
  
  *complete*
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  Alina Carter: Thanks +Jim Munro .. Is there anything else what i can do to resolve this issue?
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  Jim Munro: The second site has been misconfigured on the server to serve from your directory instead of someone else's, Alina.
  
  If they do not notice, it will continue to do so until you ask them to rectify it.
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  Alina Carter: Thanks again +Jim Munro ;
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  Elisha Aggarwal: Nice information
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  Ashish Ahuja: is the content also same on both the websites?
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  Clement Low: Do you mean that in client's Analytic and webmaster account shows the other site?+Alina Carter ;
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  Alina Carter: +Jim Munro I have various domain on the same hosting server.. Even I'm using shared hosting server for couple of my website.. Do you really think that it is an issue of same hosting server???
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  Alina Carter: No +Clement Low , the case is just opposite. The another website has the same analytic and webmaster account details, even no one has ever configured that..
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  Jim Munro: both sites contain identical code including the line below and both are on the same ip, Alina. I think you can be certain that both sites are configured to use the same files from the same directory.
  
  <!-- Mirrored from www.whatareuhungryfor  ;.com/ by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2010], Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:20:05 GMT -->
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  Jim Munro: ...but the copy on the "hungry" site seems to have been written for the mozzeroni site.
  
  Have you considered that they might be misleading you?
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  Kumar Raushan: Yes ;+Alina Carter ;, I looked in to ;whatareuhungryfor.com and what i found is +Jim Munro ;is right, what you wrote is for ;mozzeronis.com
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  W.E. Jonk: +Alina Carter ;there is no problem with using a shared host. However, like Jim already said, both the URL's are serving the same content (identical). This is not best practice, better is to serve the content on one URL. In general this process is called canonicalization [1]. Bing prefers to use normalization [2]. In short, you want to prevent duplication (this does include www versus non-www).
  
  Since you are doing the SEO:
  
  - I noticed that you are using Flash to serve content that can be served in plain HTML. For example consider this page ;http://goo.gl/MGtPk7 and this Flash content ;http://goo.gl/KAOZ2D. In this example it would be better to use HTML because crawlers can read HTML much better then Flash [3]. In general try to avoid Flash.
  
  - I also noticed this background image on your home page ;http://goo.gl/QQn2un. This is all text and crawlers prefer HTML over images [4]. That is, search engines don't (really) use OCR-software.
  
  With that you make your site much better crawl-able and thereby search engines will understand your site better. In other words, I would focus on that first before adding in more meta-tags. For example this is mentioned twice in your code:
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
  [5] ;
  
  [1] ;https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
  [2] ;http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2012/04/27/better-than-canonical-url-normalization.aspx
  [3] ;https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/72746?hl=en
  [4] ;https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en&ref_topic=2370565
  [5] ;http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatareuhungryfor.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
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  Alina Carter: Thank u so much +Jim Munro & +W.E. Jonk .. This information is really helpful for me.. I would love to hear more..
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  W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:26:35 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/same_site_on_two_servers
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  Shane Walker:
  Hi Alina,
  
  I'm not really sure why your client would be wanting to put identical content on two different sites but I would highly advise against it. The simple reason is that at least one of the sites going to get penalised for duplicate content and not rank in the search engines. In regards to which site is not penalised, this is often debated in the SEO world about whether it is the site that first published the information or whether it is the site which has the higher authority in Google's eyes. Google will never tell you exactly so we're not sure but that being said, the first thing that I would do is get rid of the duplicate content and you'll find that your site will rank a lot better fresh original content.
  
  Regards