Duplicating Website?

[NeoMarine]

Lets say I have a website in which users will submit a movie or some kind of content.

Now, lets say I have acquired another domain name which is completely different... for example, one site is called 'YourMovies' and the other is 'MegaMovies'.

So, if I had content which users have already submitted to 'YourMovies' which was established a few months ago for example, would I be able to then release 'MegaMovies' as if it was a completely seperate website, using the content that was submitted to 'YourMovies' (lets say for legal reasons, in the terms I mentioned that by submitting content you allow me to use it on other websites without disclosure, etc.)?

The other question I have is, in a similar situation, would it be a wise move SEO wise to have 3 or so different websites, using the same content -whereby if a user submits to one site they submit the content to all the websites? The reason I would do this is to 1). experiment with the best domain/brand and 2). get multiple streams of traffic.

Thank you for your help!!

 

[shockie]

first of all, the kind of content matters a great deal because search engines don't really crawl videos that well. seeing that's really the direction you're heading it, go for it if you want. however, i don't see that many benefits to having duplicate sites.

 

[angilina]

If you put same content in two separate sites, or even in two separate pages, then that is not good. You will not get traffic from search engines on the duplicate pages.

Google will index the content that it finds first. And if a site has too much of duplicate content, then it might get duplicate content penalty.

 

[NeoMarine]

Thank you

 

[weblord]

1 domain requires new content, time for research and development of those contents, if you don't have time doing this, you may hire someone to do it for you or park and sell it.

 

[NeoMarine]

Thank you weblord, my main idea was to just have multiple game portals using the same content across them... but I think it's best to focus on just one - even though my other domain names could have been indexed better in google!

 

[bluearrow]

If both sites look identical content wise probably new site would get a penalty. I think thing might go differently if you can change page names, meta tags , Title tag and also the Header tags in content.

 

[NeoMarine]

Interesting bluearrow... that is what I was wondering about!

Perhaps its worthwhile experimenting with at some stage, before I write the idea off completely... of course, I would need to be creative in the way I use the content so it is of course, 'unique' for each site.