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100 sites with the same videos and images

by Joe Ray
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I definitely don't have extensive knowledge in SEO. I am not interested in Google traffic, so I don't worry about it much.

But, I just had a funny thought.

I bought a company a while ago with a large video and image library. Since I own the videos & images, I've been thinking about launching an ad based VOD site but I think it wouldn't make much money. So, I didn't bother building the site.

Then, it just occurred to me, what would happen if instead of launching one VOD site, I would launch 100 or more VOD sites with the same videos. I would give the videos & images different names for each site and I would have a different text description for each site so there wouldn't be any duplicate content issue, I guess. Again, I don't know much about SEO.

I run a software engineering company so I can easily create a software to automate the process of running even 1,000 sites.

My question is for you SEO guys, how would Google react to something like this? Is there a way I can get away with this?
#100 #images #sites #videos
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Joe Ray View Post

    I definitely don't have extensive knowledge in SEO. I am not interested in Google traffic, so I don't worry about it much.

    But, I just had a funny thought.

    I bought a company a while ago with a large video and image library. Since I own the videos & images, I've been thinking about launching an ad based VOD site but I think it wouldn't make much money. So, I didn't bother building the site.

    Then, it just occurred to me, what would happen if instead of launching one VOD site, I would launch 100 or more VOD sites with the same videos. I would give the videos & images different names for each site and I would have a different text description for each site so there wouldn't be any duplicate content issue, I guess. Again, I don't know much about SEO.

    I run a software engineering company so I can easily create a software to automate the process of running even 1,000 sites.

    My question is for you SEO guys, how would Google react to something like this? Is there a way I can get away with this?
    Google is smart about detecting duplicate images, all you have to do to see this in action is search by image and Google will return a list of domain/pages where they've found the same image. Messing with the image doesn't throw Google off the trail, they know it's still the same image even If you: resize the image, skew the image, add text to the image, etc...

    Example, search Google images for the keyword car insurance, then click the Search by image link for the #1 ranked image to see all the other domains/pages with the same image (screenshot below).

    In the end the image with better SEO wins and the other images/pages get buried in the SERPs. One way to get around this is to have each duplicate image target unique keywords instead of all the images/domains/pages competing against each other for one keyword (ex: car insurance).

    Videos are still images. Google has a patent describing how they can sample a video and pull image frames just like any static image.







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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Also, cloning sites is a horrible idea, Google will do a smackdown on 100 cloned sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author YourGoToWriter
    I think this is not a very good idea. Google can detect duplicate images and videos. And yes, I agree that creating sites with the same contents can provoke google to do a setback.
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