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Duplicate content question
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- fewleh
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Hey, right, I have a situation that I'd like to share, and see if anyone knows what the best thing to do would be. I think I know, but I'd like to guage other peoples thoughts if you don't mind!
The site bio-therapeutic.com ... which provides equipment to the beauty industry is where it begins..
My client is the UK distributer for these products. For the last few years, they have just had a page on the .com domain, with the contact details for the UK office, and that is it.
He has asked me to effectively clone the website, and put it on the bio-therapeutic.co.uk domain ....we would be making some small changes, like currency, spellings, address details etc, but....a large part of the content will be the same I guess. He wants to do this, so they begin showing up in the UK SERPS for various searches, as they don't at all at the moment.
I have a feeling that if I did this, it wouldn't be duplicate content as such....as it's the UK arm of an international company? I can see Google dropping the bio-therap.com domain from all .co.uk SERPS, and i can imagine the bio-therap.co.uk domain not showing in the .com google results? Which would be the best outcome really...
Does anyone have any experience of this? Or have any other thoughts? I don't want to do this, and then find that the .com is not showing up either! I doubt that would happen.....from reading around...
I've tried to explain it, but probably not that well :shock:
Look forward to any responses :c) Cheers guys - www.cityinsurance.co.uk
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- Rich Bean
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You won't take a duplicate content "penalty" as long as you're making it more specific to the UK and adding local value. Also just by having a .uk ccTLD google will differentiate for you.
FYI there is not such thing as a "Duplicate Content Penalty" as stated in the G webmaster blogs. - My Sites:
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