🔍 Overview
Website Studio lets you build and manage landing pages and full sites inside Search Atlas. However, several customers have run into friction when trying to duplicate pages for ad campaigns, clone projects for new domains, or migrate content between projects. This article explains what is currently supported, what limitations exist, and how to work around them.
📋 What You Can and Cannot Do Right Now
Before attempting any duplication or cloning workflow, review what is currently available:
- Duplicate a page within the same project: Supported for most standard pages. Use the page management menu inside your project.
- Clone a PPC landing page (clone_ppc): Available, but affected by a known bug in roughly 15–20% of projects (see below).
- Copy or migrate a page to a different project: Not currently supported. There is no native option to move or copy a page between two separate Website Studio projects.
- Reuse a site for a different custom domain: Not directly supported. Customers who need this must use an export and re-import workflow, which adds manual steps.
⚠️ Known Issue: Duplication Stops Working After Setting Up a Custom Domain (CNAME)
Some customers notice that the duplication option becomes unresponsive or disappears after connecting a custom domain via CNAME. This is a known platform behaviour tied to how projects are locked once a custom domain is attached. Here is what to do:
- Disconnect your custom domain temporarily from the project settings.
- Perform the page duplication you need.
- Reconnect your custom domain once the duplicate is ready.
Note: If the duplication option is still missing after disconnecting the domain, clear your browser cache and reload the platform before trying again.
🐛 Known Issue: Clone PPC Pages Showing "Not Saved to History"
When cloning a PPC landing page using the clone_ppc option, you may see an alert that says "Not saved to history" even after making edits. This is caused by a silent failure during the background save process and affects approximately 15–20% of clone_ppc projects.
To reduce the risk of losing work:
- After cloning, make a small test edit and confirm the history panel updates before continuing.
- If the history does not update, close the editor, reopen the cloned page, and try again.
- Avoid making large batches of edits until the history shows at least one saved entry.
Our engineering team has resolved the underlying cause of this issue. If you are still experiencing it, contact support using the chat widget below.
🔄 Workaround: Duplicating Landing Pages for Multiple Ad Campaign Themes
If you need separate landing pages for different ad campaign themes, follow these steps using the current toolset:
- Open your Website Studio project and navigate to Page Management.
- Hover over the page you want to duplicate and select Duplicate from the options menu.
- Rename the duplicated page to reflect the campaign theme (for example, summer-sale-landing or brand-awareness-v2).
- Edit the duplicated page content to match the new campaign theme.
- Repeat for each additional theme you need.
Important: All duplicated pages will live inside the same project. If you need each page on a completely separate domain, see the section below on using multiple projects.
🌐 Workaround: Reusing a Site Design Across Multiple Domains
There is currently no one-click option to attach the same site to a second domain. Until this is natively supported, use the following approach:
- In your existing project, export your site or page using the export option in project settings.
- Create a new Website Studio project for the second domain.
- Import the exported file into the new project.
- Connect your second custom domain via CNAME in the new project's domain settings.
This process requires manual effort for each additional domain. We recognise this is not ideal and the team is working on a more streamlined solution.
🗺️ What Is Coming
The following improvements are in progress or planned based on customer feedback:
- Cross-project page migration: The ability to copy or move pages between separate Website Studio projects is under active development.
- Simplified multi-domain reuse: A workflow that removes the need for manual export and re-import when attaching a project to a new domain.
- Clone stability improvements: Further fixes to ensure clone_ppc history saving is reliable across all projects.
We will update this article as these features become available.
💬 Need More Help?
If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.