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Question For Domain & Wordpress Experts

by mookinman
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Ok folks, here' a scenario I'm thinking of....

Let's say I set up a fairly big website (using Wordpress) on a .co.uk domain, hosted in the UK. An affiliate site with product reviews/profiles, with the post template containing code that auto-populates each output page with affiliate links.

After a few months I'm getting traffic and making affiliate commisions, and decide I want to multiply this income. Can I do this by...

Registering .com.au (Australia), and .nz (New Zealand, and .com (US) domains and host in the same country. Using a wordpress plugin I would then share the posts in the database with these new international sites, so they have the same content. The only difference is that the affiliaite links will be promoting products in those countries for their respective markets.

Is this going to fall flat because of the duplicate content thing? Or is it a good way to get ranking well in other countries, and promoting products specifically for that country? I.e if I'm reviewing albums and but linking to a UK-based CD seller site, I'm not going to get as many conversions in Australia as if I was promoting an Aussie-based CD merchant?
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  • Profile picture of the author PeterGarety
    In my opinion, it is not a good idea, because indeed you will have duplicated content. For sure, you will not get traffic from Google.

    However, if you are planning to get traffic from local search engines - not Google or Yahoo, then you can do that. Usually, local search engines do not have any data about your main site, so you can create a specific site for a specific country and submit it to those search engines. This will definitely work.

    In addition, what I have seen people do is they create one site in English and then translate the same content in Spanish, German and French. And then they make the separate sites with the same content for specific countries. This way you could get the traffic from Google.

    You can check out the site mplw dot com for some more information about that.

    I hope it gives you some idea,
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  • Profile picture of the author Rashell
    that's a pretty cool idea.

    I'm not an expert, but from what I've read, the duplicate content issue is for identical articles on the same domain listed under different headings/titles, categories, tags, etc. In essence, trying to use the same article content with different keywords in an attempt to rank a single site for multiple keywords rather than creating a new article for each keyword in it's respective categories or tags.

    For example

    mysite/category-one/article-about-peanuts
    mysite/category-two/article-about-peanuts

    Should be

    mysite/category-one/article-about-peanuts
    mysite/category-two/new-article-with-different-content-targeting-another-keyword-about-peanuts

    But across multiple domains it doesn't matter.

    mysite-one/category/article-about-peanuts
    mysite-two/category/article-about-peanuts
    mysite-and-a-few-others/category/article-about-peanuts

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  • Profile picture of the author seoweb2000
    You will need to spin the content before you can put up the new site, othewise you will not get good ranking from google for the new site. Should not be hard to do with all of the tools out there for spinning.
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