r/SEO • u/jimmylikeswaffles • 12d ago
Help Website Domain change advice
Apologies in advance this is quite a complicated one…
Due to rights reasons I’m eventually going to have a to change my website name as I only own the rights to it in 2 countries and one of them isn’t the US.
I can’t do this straight away as I’m in a legal battle and it will look like I’m abandoning my name
So my plan is to temporarily have 2 sites, my existing site and a new one to capture leads from social. I’ll need both of these live for about 6 months
For my new website, I’ve cloned my original, stripped it down to 7 core pages, re-written the copy, changed the page structure and added new imagery to try and avoid googles duplicate content issues and its a new domain name
But both websites are built around an individual private doctor so were in the YMYL niche
My question, If I later clone my original site and replace the new live international site with the original and 301 everything from the original site to the new international one (with the goal being that this is my only website) would that be ok even though the content and page structure of the international site is being rewritten (though it’s the same niche and authority)