[thelist] Google Question

[Raditha Dissanayake]

Hi,

If there are pages that are very similar to one another you can just add 
a dissallow command to the robots.txt file and place it at the top of 
your home directory.

Scott wolpow wrote:

> It is a commerce site. The products will be the same but the emphasis 
> will be on different product lines.
> ie two sporting goods sites
> the first being skiland.com which focuses on skiing and scubaland.co 
> which focuses on scuba. Both will have the complete inventory on their 
> sites and have navigation to both product lines.
> I can not change the IP, so I guess it will be the content.
>
> Scott
>
> At 08:34 PM 1/16/04, you wrote:
>
>> hi...
>>
>> Regarding your phrase "..may appear to have the same content...."
>>
>> How much/what percentage of the content will be duplication....?????
>>
>> Similar content is ok, or at least that's what the response has been 
>> from
>> Google's Help when I've asked a similar question. But if you have 
>> some high
>> degree of duplication, then I imagine Google would have some issues....
>>
>> The obvious suggestions.. change the content somewhat, and use 
>> different IP
>> addresses.. or change the content alot.. and keep the same IP setup you
>> have...
>>
>> Good Luck...
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
>> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Scott wolpow
>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:13 PM
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> Subject: [thelist] Google Question
>>
>>
>> I am creating two sites that will be branded and marketed differently.
>> They will share a common database and structure.
>> They also will resolve to the same IP address, which basically 
>> constructs
>> the pages dynamically.
>> The problem is I do not want Google to mark them as Spam as they may 
>> appear
>> to have the same content.
>> They are both legitimately different sites.
>> Any ideas?
>> Scott
>>
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