Using Your Own Theme, Logo, Name for another site

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Minterest, May 26, 2012.

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  1. #1
    Hello,

    Is it okay to copy MY OWN theme files, logo, template, settings to start a country level version of the existing .COM blog? The contents will be unique and not COPY PASTE of the .com.

    Both the sites will be interlinked.... for related posts....

    Will it be marked as spam by Google? Or they won't give much value to the new blog?


    - Minterest
     
    Minterest, May 26, 2012 IP
  2. Thanoz

    Thanoz Active Member

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    You need the permission of the original website to do so. Otherwise it is likely you wil be charged for copyright and trademark infrigment.
     
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  3. Minterest

    Minterest Well-Known Member

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    Hi,

    I mentioned "Using Your Own Theme" in the title.. just added the same in description...

    I want to use MY OWN .COM blog's theme, design, settings, logo to start the .IN version.
     
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    Thanoz Active Member

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    Yet, you should still get the permission for this, especially if the domain name is trademarked.
    A good example is what happened with techradar.gr 2 years ago. Different subjects, different design, yet TechRadar.com shutted it down for using the same domain name even in country(.gr) level.
     
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  5. Minterest

    Minterest Well-Known Member

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    Hey, I said copying MY OWN WEBSITE

    I own http://www.minterest.com/ and I want to start http://www.minterest.in/ using the same THEME, DESIGN, SETTINGS etc. of http://www.minterest.com/
     
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  6. MrKeh

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    I don't see any problem with this. If yoru making it all unique there shouldnt be any problem.
     
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    As long as the content is unique I don't think there will be any problem. There are tons of sites that use the same themes, duplicate content penalties are for the actual content the page.

    If you DO want to use any of the same content (though I know you said you didn't), you can use the hreflang attribute which is similar to rel=canonical but it tells Google that the pages are the same but targeted to different regions. You can set it up so that they'll show the .in version to people in India and the .com to everyone else.

    some references on hreflang:
    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html
    http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077
     
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  8. Minterest

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    Thanks for that!

    I have setup the 2nd blog here http://www.minterest.com/one/ which is using the same theme and settings of http://www.minterest.com/
     
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    i don't think i will be spam because you use a unique content.and mostly Google consider only content.
    www(dot)esaltzberg(dot)com
     
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