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Tomas Loden
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:38 pm
Post subject: Allan, Debs, Sean,,,,, HELP..
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Hi guys,
About duplicate websites.
If I want to build Ex; 79 websites, 1 site/country
How different does the content need to be on each website?
What if all websites have the same text content on the majority of the pages?
Will Google penalize for this?
How different do I need to make each site?
Thank You for your valuable time,
Tomas
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Debs
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:19 pm
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I would think you could come up with relatively unique content if you are basing something on a specific country, state, region, etc. since each area would have its own "specifications"
So you could likely get away with a larger portion being "the same" than a site that is on the same thing but just disguised to target a region, country or state.
For instance, one of the posters here has a site on state driving laws, and one on state insurance laws ... the structure and content idea is pretty much duplicated throughout the sites, but because each state has some different 'specifications" for each, the content itself missed the duplicate content tag.
The trick is to get the specs as unique as possible, not just try to target the same info to different regions, countries or states.
Also, when you do this kind of targeting, you get specific in your keyphrases ... if you don't then you are likely to show up in Google with "duplicate content removed" flag. What this means is ... if you are searching/targeting "insurance law" Google might show one page from your site, and the "duplicate content" tag for the rest, or, your entire site could hit the "duplicate content tag."
However, if you target "ohio insurance law" then your pages on that keyphrase will show, and your other pages may show as duplicate content. Which is ok, because the searcher wants "ohio insurance law" not just "insurance law."
Debs
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Sean Burns
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:04 am
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In addition to what Debs said, duplicate content only really becomes an issue when it is on multiple domains.
If you are targeting regional keywords on one site it won't cause many problems. Just make sure that each page is targeted to a different keyword and provides something relevant, useful and unique.
If you are doing it on multiple sites, you can have problems because you will probably want to cross link them. Cross linking 79 sites with duplicate (or similar) content can cause lots of problems. Apart from that many sites creating your own link farm, you'd probably fail a manual inspection - it'd look like you are doing it for search engine reasons if the content is the same.
So, if you are sure that you need to create regionally targeted pages then you can either keep them on one site or have multiple sites that aren't cross linked and don't compete with each other on the same keywords.
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onlineleben
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:53 am
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When talking about 79 sites with one site per country, that probably also means that more than one language is used. Since eg. french looks different from english and german is different from english as well, targeting these countries in their respective language would lessen the dangers of duplicate content mentioned in above posts.
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