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I have use google trends for my .com site. I have realized that I would like also to be in Australia and UK. For the momment I rank fine on google.com, but I would also to rank fine for [google.co.uk...] and [google.com.au...]
Someone has recommend me to the following:
1.-Create two submains: uk.mysite.com and au.mysite.com
2.-Copy the whole site to those sites (with no modification at all)
3.-Host uk.mysite.com in a UK Host
4.-Host au.mysite.com in a AU Host
It sounds good but I am really afraid about duplicate content penalty. Someone knows is this practice is consider content duplication?
Regards
1) I'd avoid copying the site without any modifications as it will definately trigger a duplicate content filter. Try and modify atleast 15-20% of the text to suit local requirements if you cannot create unique pages for those countries.
2) While hosting in the IP ranges of those countries might be ok, I still think it is better to go with the country specific extension (.co.uk for example) to get broader coverage in the engines, directories etc.
