Avoiding Dupe Filter

Same Page on 2 sites

[johnser]

Hi

I've to replicate a page from 1 site onto a different site.
The pages are identical.

Whats the minimum I must do to alter the second new page so as its not seen by G as a duplicate?

I think Brett said elsewhere that a page needs to change by 1kb in order to attract the freshbot.

Would changing my page by 1kb also avoid the dupe filter?

TIA
J

[BigDave]

Do you really need both copies of this page in the SERPs? Why not let Google remove one?

[Napoleon]

If it's a single page from many on each site I don't think you will have too big a problem. This particularly applies if you can change the formats a bit, and maybe have a couple of different links on them (or add some to one of them).

I've always found that one page makes little difference - and look at the number of sites around that publish the same press releases/etc.

Just use common sense, don't set out to abuse the SE, and you should be fine.

[johnser]

Thx for that
Suffice to say theres a bit of IP detection going on ;)

I was thinking that if I've 2 sites each with 50 pages of identical content and structure, that if I change the titles & add 1-2k text on each page of the second site, I'm hardly likely to trip a filter? Or am I?

(We're not talking serious spamming here btw & theres no X-linking between the sites)

Anyone got experience of this?
J

[johnser]

hmmm - same discussion on earlier post here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Mental note - Read earlier posts from same day..
:)