Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
A very interesting point has just been raised in a meeting, can't find any related posts so it may not have been raised on here yet.
We have several different product websites designed from exactly the same template with each site having unique content. All the sites are on unique URL's but are all hosted on the same sever. We shouldn't have any problems with google deeming our sites as duplicates because the content is unique (I think google sees a site as duplicate if more than 75% of the code is the same - may be wrong!). Although we will not interlink these sites Google will know that there is a 'relationship' between them because they are on the same server and have been 'released' at the same time. We're just hoping that this isn't regarded as SPAM.
We plan to submit all the sites (6 in all) to around 250 directories in the hope of securing one-way links to the sites.
Now the question;
As we will be submitting all the sites to the same list of directories (very long tedious task I know!) at the same time.. are we at risk of our sites being penalised for SPAM issues? Google will identify that the sites have the same inbound links and could see this as artificle!
Are we best off submitting the sites seperately at different stages (i.e 1 site a week)?
We really want to do everthing right here... hope you can help us resolve our debate!
Thanks in advance!
