Google Duplicates

[Morledge]

Hi,

I have been asked buy a customer to release one website hosting on two domains, a .com domain and a .co.uk domain. Both of these domains are hosted by 1and1 (I believe in the UK).

My question is, will google ban these website hostings because they will be classed as duplicates or will they be ok because they are on different TLD's.

Thanks
Morledge

[paul]

Try to add unique content on the pages where duplicate content is being used and filter content through randomization.

[Morledge]

Thanks Paul, so are you saying that it will matter even though they are on different TLD's?

[Ryan]

I think it might be considered a case of duplicate content or mirror website hostings even though on two different TLDs. Usually when search engines find duplicate content they choose one of the pages to list in the index, and then will ignore the other.

If you keep both, I think you'd need to sort out the hosting and the linking issue, having both domains on one hosting account would mean trouble.

You'd have to properly host the two website hostings separately, on local hosts, and keep all the link sources separate. If you do this, I think they'd both stay in their local indexes. These would be two separate website hostings on different local servers.

The other option which you can consider is to redirect the .com to the .co.uk.

[Grimmjow]

google bots have been crawling my website hosting for a while....but nothing indexed on the search engine yet, any clue to why its not showing any results?

[paul]

Thanks Paul, so are you saying that it will matter even though they are on different TLD's?

Yes, follow the instruction by Ryan and what I said, change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat what I see here.

[Gracia]

duplicate content isn't "bad", it's just that google works very hard to filter out duplicate content and eventually they'll probably get you, one way or another.