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Need a little advice here. I've built a website for a client who is a triathlon coach. I registered the domain name http://www.novicecoaching.com and to type in the keyword 'novice coach' returns No1 in all the major search engines. 57% of all enquiries are from America, but he is UK based. selecting "results for the UK only" check box in means his is way down on the results so I registered http://www.novicecoaching.co.uk for him and want to clarify something.

I am led to belive that simply copying all the information and uploading it to the UK based URL would harm his ranking because the search engines may think that we are trying to gain mximum return by buying more than one URL in the hope that it will get better exposure. (Spamming)

I am currently rewriting his boring emails (targeted at club memebrs - not spam) into HTML and have suggested creating a different homepage for the UK site (slighttly different wording) plus the HTML email as resident (i.e the link that says 'if you cannot see this email click here' will take you to a page of the UK site but all the naviagtional buttons on it direct you to the COM website)

Am I correct in this assumption? Would I get punished for duplicating the same site on two different URLs - .COM + .CO.UK? Or is there an easier way to let Google et al know that they are the same but for two different markets.


What I propose to him is to use the the .CO.UK website as just three pages:

1) The homepage written slightly different to the .COM one
2) The resident of the HTML newsletter
3) My client writes content about his company (not linkable from anywhere but an extra page for the search engines to read and a link for the google sitemap)

Can I put duplicate sites on two different 'dots' or will this harm his rankings?
Any thoughts?

Hurst Vanrooj

 

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Need a little advice here. I've built a website for a client who is a triathlon coach. I registered the domain name http://www.novicecoaching.com and to type in the keyword 'novice coach' returns No1 in all the major search engines. 57% of all enquiries are from America, but he is UK based. selecting "results for the UK only" check box in means his is way down on the results so I registered http://www.novicecoaching.co.uk for him and want to clarify something.

I am led to belive that simply copying all the information and uploading it to the UK based URL would harm his ranking because the search engines may think that we are trying to gain mximum return by buying more than one URL in the hope that it will get better exposure. (Spamming)

I am currently rewriting his boring emails (targeted at club memebrs - not spam) into HTML and have suggested creating a different homepage for the UK site (slighttly different wording) plus the HTML email as resident (i.e the link that says 'if you cannot see this email click here' will take you to a page of the UK site but all the naviagtional buttons on it direct you to the COM website)

Am I correct in this assumption? Would I get punished for duplicating the same site on two different URLs - .COM + .CO.UK? Or is there an easier way to let Google et al know that they are the same but for two different markets.


What I propose to him is to use the the .CO.UK website as just three pages:

1) The homepage written slightly different to the .COM one
2) The resident of the HTML newsletter
3) My client writes content about his company (not linkable from anywhere but an extra page for the search engines to read and a link for the google sitemap)

Can I put duplicate sites on two different 'dots' or will this harm his rankings?
Any thoughts?

Hurst Vanrooj

if you duplicate the content google wont like it and it will take one off it's listing , it did happend to me i have a website with it's original domain , when i bought one more domain for it i redirected it and google did index but few weeks after it is gone from search engine

Tv