The Limos.com Forum Has Moved!!!

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Originally posted by Dave M:
I also like the site. It’s a little busy, but the design targets the correct demographic. The area I’m concerned with is your use of multiple websites. It’s obvious you’re trying to “game” the search engines, but you’re going about it in a very obvious way.

Just in case you didn’t know, Google frowns upon this practice. This is addressed in the Google webmaster guidelines: “Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.”

Fortunately, Google isn’t God, the IRS, or your Mom, so it’s o.k. to trick them. You just have to be smart about it.

In your case, the big issue is that you have similar websites set up on the same server with an identical IP address. In addition, all the sites are registered to you. This is a big red flag. To correct this, you need to put these sites on separate servers from different hosting companies. The sites should then be registered by proxy to conceal your identity.

In addition to changing the servers, you need to get rid of the duplicate content. By duplicate content, I’m referring to pages with identical wording where you have replaced the word Daytona with Jacksonville. Each site needs to be radically different. This means you need to change the template, organization, and content. Yahoo Search is currently ignoring half of your pages because of this problem.

If you take the above steps, you’ll have unique sites with specific geographic content that fall within the Google Webmaster guidelines.



Dave