Content Duplication

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Content Duplication

is this content duplication?

chatrath

8:47 pm on Apr 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

We've got a main website, and then about 3 "branded" versions of the site on their own sub domains - these branded sites are the same as our main site, but with different header and footer.

For the moment (paranoid about getting banned or ortherwise penalized for duplicate content) we've added a <meta NAME="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> tag to the <HEAD> section of all the subdomains/branded sites.

Is there any (acceptable) way of using the links to our branded sites to add to the main site's PR?

Please advice.

g1smd

10:44 pm on Apr 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Not really. It's a jumbo Duplicate Content issue just waiting to bite you.

chatrath

11:13 pm on Apr 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

That means no solution to take the advantage of PR transfer.

Dinesh_Gour

9:52 am on Apr 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

this will be treated as content duplication by SE's. Make your content different in all new domains. Put some new para or make changes in content some how.

AnkitMaheshwari

10:05 am on Apr 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

PR should not transfers with the mentioned Meta robots tag.

However, it is advisable that you should block these sub-domains through robots.txt file, that is more reliable way to stop bots from crawling the site.

Shaddows

4:29 pm on Apr 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

Actually, I think this would be prime material for the canonical tag.

Put the canonical tag on the branded subdomains, referencing the main content.

They won't rank independantly (but they're NOINDEX currently anyway), but will donate PR to the main page.