> -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Wormus > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:14 PM > > Joshua Olson wrote: > > > http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=219744 > > > > In a nutshell, they penalize domains where the content is too > > similar (aka duplicate) to that of another domain. > visa versa. To which you retorted: > You're not being penalized, it's just that people are linking to the > 'www' version of the URL, and google is awarding that site pagerank. > Google won't penalize unless you REALLY, REALLY push it. You can still > get away with a lot. > > I have sites which people link to both the http://sitename.com and the > http://www.sitename.com versions and google gives different pageranks. > > Google's reindexing can also cause dramatic shifts in your PR. I had > 6/10 PR pages get reduced to 0, without being penalized. Nothing to > worry about. Aaron, You did read the link I posted, right? You just haven't been caught yet. :-) Here's more information: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2213 http://www.google.com/search?q=google+duplicate+sites <><><><><><><><><><> Joshua Olson Web Application Engineer WAE Tech Inc. http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/ 706.210.0168