Is or is NOT Duplicate Content - Same content on add on domains? ? ?

What he proposes to do is done all the time--just not with subdomains.

For example, sites like texasgasprices.com, are owned by the same people,
gasbuddy.com, who own a gazillion other sites like arizonagasprices.com.

They are all the same sites, just a different script showing gas prices for that state
or location.

All on the same ip, for that matter...

It's the way to go if you are in fact targeting something local in a bunch of
cities or states.

Unless of course the business is stationed all across the country. Then you really
would not need to do that.

Gasbuddy.com kills a lot of myths...

If he is just in a few cities, I would do separate domains with what you propose.
No subdomains.

But the point is moot unless he is listed in google maps. Those would get top billing.

Paul

Thanks for the input Paul,

Well he is in 5 other cities besides the headquarters location.

I may have used the wrong terminology in saying sub/add-on domains.

They are domains on hosted on the same account in a sub-directory of the primary domain account but are accessed through their actual domain web address ie: www.location2.com.

But if I'm reading you correctly, as far as local listings are concerned the duplicate content shouldn't be an issue; right?

This poor guy was lost and totally Internet illiterate till I came along. He was getting calls with people saying they found him online (From unclaimed insider pages, merchant circle or one of the online yellow pages listings) and had claimed none of his listings.

Now that I have him in local 7 boxes on Google in the top 3 for his keywords, and somewhere between 1st and 4th organic positions on page one for the same keywords, he expects I can do the same thing for all his locations.

From what you are saying I can see where the local listings shouldn't be a problem since all I have to do it claim and finish the citation site's listing info on his other locations, but it is going to be interesting to see what happens as to organic listings.

I guess I could just explain to him I can get his local listings in the other locations to the top of page one but there is no guarantee about the organic listings.

The next step is to figure out if there is some way to automate the process of duplicating these sites. His first site is 47 pages and he has a girl doing blog posts for him as well. The whole site is on a WordPress platform. MMMMMan that's gonna be a lot of copy and paste.

Anyway, I sincerely appreciate your input Paul.

Anybody else wants to chime in I'm all ears/eyes.

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Valuable Information Paul,

... and sincerely appreciated.