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Good luck RustyZipper...
I've been watching the forums here for several weeks and just registered. I'm not sure if this is the best thread to post this in but it has to do with linked sites that have duplicate content so I'll try it here.
I started a web site, my first real one, in late Sept, that got into DMOZ within a week of it being up. It showed up in Google, then was lost, and now has been found again in the last indexing and given a PR of 5. My concern is that back last spring, on my free ISP web space, I put up a page that is primarily a geomorphological database. I now have it also on the "real" site, but with no link to the old one. Google hasn't found the old page, from the spring, but Alta Vista has. I stuck a "MIRROR" sign on the old one but otherwise it's exactly the same as one of the pages on the new site and it has a link to the new site. The question at last...
How picky is Google about duplicate content and linking? Will what I've done be penalized if it finds the old site?
Sorry about the length of this.....
[edited by: Marcia at 8:20 am (utc) on Nov. 4, 2002]
If I understand you correctly, you do not need the old free hosted db page for your new real site, right? No links back either.
While I wouldn't be overly concerned with the possibility of being penalized for duplicate content (Google wouldn't know those two sites are related, right?) the safest option would probably be to just take the old page offline.
You're right, the old site isn't really necessary, I just left it up for old-times sake. I'll retire it as soon as I've finished waking up.
Cheers
