The Other Search Engines

**davidkeps** · 01-13-2004, 08:48 PM

Hello,

I am considering taking my .com website and duplicating it to a .co.uk and .ca and .au domain. Does it make sense to do this so that I can get listed on foreign search engines that only list specific regional domains. If anyone has any advice on this, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks
David

**TimSchroeder** · 01-15-2004, 11:02 AM

David.

I would not do it. Reason is because if the sites are exactly the same, it could trigger the Duplicate Penalty filter by Google and do more harm than good.

Instead, I would consider developing some smaller content "feeder" sites that could be used to send traffic to your main site. Basically legitimate use of "doorways."

Just IMO

**I, Brian** · 01-18-2004, 01:51 PM

The problem with the duplicate content is that Google will simply treat the sites as mirror siets - and in such instances, Google will only nidex and list one of them.

The simplest way to get around this is to do a single front page under each domain, with different content targeted at regional visitors - but then do all your linking to your main .com site.

Best to keep the same design scheme if you do, though.

The only trouble is, you would have to really push these regional pages as well, otherwise they just aren't going to figure. Maybe have a link on your main page - perhaps in the footer - to the regional front pages.

Hope that helps.