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2323
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Posted: 2004-Nov-10 16:01
Hi,
Our .com website is established, we would like to set up a .co.uk version using the same content, is this a bad idea in terms of search engine ranking?
We don't want to break any Google policies...
Thanks,
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seo tester
Joined: Aug 23, 2004
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Posted: 2004-Nov-11 02:28
Using the same content is not a good idea in most cases. Google will detect that they are duplicate sites. Most of the time, it simply removes the newer site from its index, so your UK site will not show in the rankings. On some occasions I've seen them remove the older pages and leave the newer ones. That would be worse, removing your .com pages. You could get both sites banned, though that is pretty unlikely from just having 2 duplicate sites unless you are doing other shady things.
If you want to start a .com.uk site, I'd recommend changing the content as much as you can.
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hans
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Posted: 2004-Nov-17 16:21
2323,
Why are you launching a new site? If it's to rank well for the same terms as the .com site then yes its a bad idea, especially using teh same content.
If you are doing something that doesnt require the site ranking well then just use a no-robots tag, this will prevent SE spiders crawling your duplicate pages.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Nov-17 19:59
A friend of mine owns two similar .com domains and the two .co.uk versions of those.
All of the content is accessed at just one of the www-prefixed URLs, and all of the others (with or without a www prefix) use a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file to prevent any sort of duplicate indexing, at all.
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