Country Specific TLDs and Duplicate Content

[triggerfinger]

Hi All,

I have quick question:

If I host a site such as "Widget.com", which is established for years and has many inbound links...

And create a new site such as "Widget.com.nz", or something similar, using some unique content, but a majority of aggregated content from the original site, what's the chances of the duplicate content hurting the original sites traffic, and the new sites potential for traffic?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[tedster]

In my experience, this is what is most likely to happen:

In NZ - your new site can rank and your established site will be filtered out

Outside NS - your established site will continue to rank and the NZ site will be filtered out

In short - I don't think you have any worries.

[triggerfinger]

In your experience, does this apply to any country specific TLD?

[tedster]

Yes. Understanding it depends on getting the message about "there is no duplicate content penalty".

Country-code TLDs are given precedence within their own country, but they are very challenged to rank elsewhere - even if they don't duplicate content.