You design a template framework, with tables and everything all ready. Could you plug in all kinds of different websites into that template (on different domains) Or does google actually penalize duplicate templates? I doubt they do, but I get nervous when making 15 different websites using the exact same tables, colors, sizes... however the CONTENT itself is completely unique, but again the framework is the same. Whats your opinion?
Google looks at your content, not your code layout. They do take heading tags and strong, em tags into consideration, but thats about it.
I believe, google will check for content in various aspects. not the template. Let's take an example ... You know many wordpress themes/templates are downloaded by thousands of people and they are using the same template on thousands of blogs. Are all those blogs are duplicate? the answer is NO. All those blogs have different content. So no worries.
Your safe using the same layout. For the most part it pays attention to the content not the code (except meta, title tags etc...)
So ideally this makes cranking out 50 websites which can potentially rank well WAY easier then using 50 unique layouts..
Agree with 3rd Rock Hosting, google and other search engine are care about your content, keyword density, meta, back link and how popular your sites.
Google Looks to the content not to your template their are many number of sites like blogger,wordpress & typepad and thousands of people using same templates that means,all the users have duplicates blogs that's not true... Regards:- 519studio
it shouldn't be part of any 'duplicate content' analysis... however it will almost certainly be used in any 'footprinting' studies. If your template gets used by 1000000 spam sites, you'll get 'tarred with the same brush'.
For sure. But 50 of your own websites with unique content promoted "white hat" shouldn't bring any issues.