Does Google Care If Legal Pages Are Within Site

gjd6599 · 10-04-2009, 08:16 PM

Hi, I have several sites, and I am always creating more. It gets to be a pain making legal pages for each site. Do you think google cares, as long as they are there. What I mean is I would like to create my disclaimer,tos,contact us, and so forth, on a generic domain, and link all my sites to those legal pages.

Instead of naming my company in every legal page, I would just put, My Company will ect.

I have seen this on some big name marketers sites, where instead of naming their company in their legal forms, they say "our company", so I assume they are doing this.

Do you think it hurts the sites as far as seo?

Thanks Glenn

Jill Carpenter · 10-04-2009, 08:40 PM

Outgoing links from a primary site are something you want to keep to a minimum. You can always add the pages with a noindex if they are all duplicate content.

vagabondette · 10-04-2009, 08:48 PM

why not just have the first sentence contain "Company Name (hereinafter referred to as "The Company")" then you just have to change it in that one spot. or you can just do a search and replace.

ripsnorta2 · 10-05-2009, 08:10 PM

If you have the PHP knowhow you could always create a plugin to autogenerate those pages. Then all you have to do is install it on each site.

(This will also work if you're not using WP, it's a simple script not a plugin script.)

10-04-2009, 08:16 PM	#1
gjd6599 Glenn Downer War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 323 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts	Does Google Care If Legal Pages Are Within Site Hi, I have several sites, and I am always creating more. It gets to be a pain making legal pages for each site. Do you think google cares, as long as they are there. What I mean is I would like to create my disclaimer,tos,contact us, and so forth, on a generic domain, and link all my sites to those legal pages. Instead of naming my company in every legal page, I would just put, My Company will ect. I have seen this on some big name marketers sites, where instead of naming their company in their legal forms, they say "our company", so I assume they are doing this. Do you think it hurts the sites as far as seo? Thanks Glenn

10-04-2009, 08:40 PM	#2
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vagabondette HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Currently in Mexico Posts: 273 Thanks: 50 Thanked 43 Times in 30 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Does Google Care If Legal Pages Are Within Site why not just have the first sentence contain "Company Name (hereinafter referred to as "The Company")" then you just have to change it in that one spot. or you can just do a search and replace.

10-05-2009, 08:10 PM	#4
ripsnorta2 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 327 Thanks: 54 Thanked 23 Times in 18 Posts Contact Info	Re: Does Google Care If Legal Pages Are Within Site If you have the PHP knowhow you could always create a plugin to autogenerate those pages. Then all you have to do is install it on each site. (This will also work if you're not using WP, it's a simple script not a plugin script.)
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