Quick Question. I have a business that sells candles. I have a people know interested in joining my team and they want help with a website. Can I duplicate my website and have them host it on their domain with almost identical content. Will I get penalized for this? Thanks in advance
Yes, you most likely will! No sense duplicating same site at all, instead (if you think it will work), make few sites competing each other the same micro-niche (with unique content and different related links to them)! That way you will compete with yourself and either all or at least 1 of the projects will be successful. But don't duplicate/steal content and a good idea is to host these on pretty different IPs... Cheers
Duplicate content = bad, especially if the sites are exactly 100% duplicate. Take the time to change the content up. Throw a few extra sentences in there, change the titles of the pages, change the meta descriptions,,,,,, It will be worth it in the long run, if you take an extra hour or two and add some original content. I copied a wordpress blog like what you are talking about. But as soon as I opened the other site, I changed the title, meta descriptions and started posting original content on the second site. I dont think anyone can give you an exact "yes" or "no" answer to if google will frown upon your site. The best thing to do, is not to give google a reason to frown. I can tell you this - I saw a guy who could not get his site to rank well in google. And after looking at his site, it was 100% duplicate content. His whole site was nothing but thousands of articles - word for word - taken from other pages.