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I have a WH client who needs SEO - he has a service business and is using a backend system that specializes in this service. He is also hosted by the service.
In his source code I can see that his site links back to the service site for secure processing - login, payment etc.
So I Googled this:
inurl:https://*.theServiceSite.com and got over 9,000 hits.
I looked at about a dozen sites and none linked to each other and they all have different owners.
Only one has a PR of 3, the rest have a PR of 1 or 0.
Looking at those sites I could see they all used basically the same template and all had links going back to the service site.
Of the 12, there were 4 different C Blocks.
I looked up his IP address and there are about 17,000 sites listed under that IP. All the ones that I could see where his service business.
The URLs are all like this:
[MyClientSite.theServiceSite.com...]
which shows as [myClientSite.com...]
My questions are these: Will Google see all these sites as seperate, what about the duplicate content problem, generally how does Google sees this large "service sites" with thousands of little copies.
Is there anything else I can do to figure out if this is even doable.
Thank you very much for any thoughts.
The first thing I'd say is that being on the same C-Block is not necessarily a problem. Even using the same template is not necessarily a problem. As long as the site's text content is unique, substantial, and the titles and meta descriptions for each page are unique and relevant, good search traffic is possible.
https://MyClientSite.theServiceSite.comwhich shows as [myClientSite.com<...]
Be very meticulous in learning how this domain level redirect happens technically. It should be a 301 Permanent status, but it sounds like you might be looking at something else, even a frameset.
As for PR - it always depends on backlinks and getting the most "juice" out of them as you can. So be sure to handle any possible canonical url problems [webmasterworld.com].
generally how does Google sees this large "service sites" with thousands of little copies.If the content is the same, they are dead in the water for ranking. In my experience, most of the types of service sites are technically clueless and not SEO savvy. It may or may not be possible to help in any particular case.
To get a first orientation, you may want to read through some the discussions in Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page.
