Mirror sites - wil they get banned?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by eyes2005, Mar 31, 2006.

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    I wish to have a duplicate of my website (www.yourdomain.com) on another domain name, which i am going to register (www.yourdomain2.com).

    When search engine spiders scan the site, and see it is identical to others can the SEs ban me?

    or i was thinkin of modifying the Duplicate site a little bit, the content and colours so it wouldnt exactly be duplicate of the 1st one. Is this abetter idea? and wil NOT get me banned?


    Get back....
     
    eyes2005, Mar 31, 2006 IP
  2. blinky55

    blinky55 Banned

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    Hey, ive done this for several sites, it boost you up in the search engines and ive never read and article of it being ilegal or getting banned you paid for it you can do what you want.
     
    blinky55, Mar 31, 2006 IP
  3. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    This is called a duplicate content penalty or banning if you do it. Depending on how you promote the sites, they may or may not get banned. Personally I would focus on 1 site, and just redirect the other domain to it if you still want the other domain name.

    Search Engines are getting very good at spotting duplicate content, and changing the colors and a little content probably isn't going to cover anything up, especially if the domain names are that similar.
     
    jestep, Mar 31, 2006 IP
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    blinky55 Banned

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    I geuss I should have mentioned that all my second domain does is forward you to the first one.
     
    blinky55, Mar 31, 2006 IP
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    craigedmonds Notable Member

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    I see alot of xml/rss feeds out there allowing people to effectively share content, meaning that the same content is duplicated all over the place.

    Who gets the penalty in this case?

    Heres an example...

    I have created a CMS system which basically allows the users to submit news articles on their own web sites.

    When they do this, the articles also appear on 3 other of my own web sites at the same time. (the articles have backlinks to thier sites automatically)

    1 of the sites is 5 years old and ranks brilliantly. (3000 visitors per day)

    The other 2 sites are less than 1 year old and rank pretty good (about 500 per day).

    When they post an article a few days later, and make a search for that article, 9 times out of 10, my 5 yo site ranks above them.

    They still rank even with the duplicate content but the older more established site seems to get priority.

    Any ideas about how that works becasue the CMS user is the original author and the articles are duplicated across different sites at the same time.

    The duplicate content rule confuses me somewhat.
     
    craigedmonds, Apr 3, 2006 IP