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n1co
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Posted: 2007-Jan-08 12:13
I run a travel business based in the UK and am a learning seo enthusiast. I have 2 questions.
I currently point mysite.co.uk at the .com version of the site - I have heard differing opinions on whether this is detrimantal or not - nay opinions would be gratefully received.
I am just about to launch in Australia and will be duplicating the site to .com.au with much text changes but the frame and page layout will remain the same. The site will be hosted in Australia and the site will point at the same SQL database for search results (SQL hosted in the UK). Am I going to be penalised for site duplication in this way and does anyone have tips, suggestions etc for this scenario.
Many thanks
[ Message was edited by: Dinkar 01/08/2007 04:29 am ... Reason: Please keep your site in your profile. ]
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Hampstead
Joined: Feb 20, 2001
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Posted: 2007-Jan-08 17:22
Hi Nick and welcome to the forums. I know we briefly discussed this matter by email earlier today and you will get some good second opinions here, but to kick off, here's my reply to give you a head start.
>>I currently point mysite.co.uk at the .com version of the site - I have heard differing opinions on whether this is detrimantal or not - nay opinions would be gratefully received.
If it's the site in your profile, they are not forwarding but they should do in order to avoid duplicate content penalties. The canonicalisation issue has been addressed where the non www version of the site redirects to the www version, however, this has not been done using the prescribed 301 redirect method. It's my guess that this is being written by ASP.net to the www address. That's OK though because what we are trying to avoid is having the 2 versions of the site being accessible with a 200 header - this isn't happening.
You need to redirect the .co.uk to the .com (or vice versa) in order to avoid duplicates. You will be able to do this through your IIS6 interface, but do make sure the header is returning a 301 not a 302 redirect.
>>I am just about to launch in Australia and will be duplicating the site to .com.au ...
You need to work on at least 85% unique content on each page. The content in question is the actual text within the body tags on the page. The template doesn't count towards the duplicate count.
I'm not sure if pointing to a database in the UK is a problem. Probably not, but somebody else can chip in here to correct me.
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