Hi all! We currently have a uk based website with a .co.uk extension and we want to target the US market. Our initial plan was to buy a .net (the .com is not available anymore) and actually copy and paste the content of the .co.uk site to the .net one, changing just the essential information -currency, geo targeted testimonials among other things-. As an SEO manager, i m perfectly aware of the duplicate content issue and in regards to that, i was wondering what was the best solution according to you. Thanks. Your answers will for sure be very helpful Charly
If you're an SEO manager, you should know by experience and not by theory that the duplicate content is largely a myth. Well, if you're afraid, you can set your htacess geo-targetted, whoever comes in from US, is redirected to your US page, and etc.
i think should't be any major problem ... i saw livescore.com livescore.asia livescore.eu livescore.co.uk livescore.us all basically is same site but work out by them self (own BL, serp n bla) ...
Creating a duplicate site does put it at a bit of a disadvantage when trying to rank. But it's nothing that cannot be overcome with a few extra inbound links. If two pages found at two different URLs are identical in every way (exact same domain age, exact same content, exact same backlink profile with the exact same link text from (internal and exteral pages), etc.) the original will outrank the duplicate. Being the original only gives it a slight edge. Being flagged as a duplicate only effects some of the ranking factors considered by Google - those based on the content of the page. The duplicate page can compensate for it and actually outrank the original by getting higher scores on other ranking factors that are not based on the content of the page like inbound links. Duplicate content frequently outranks original content for this reason.