Hi Gregory,

Did you get any further with your query above? I am considering implementing the same thing...

Thanks,

Dan

Thanks Both,

Pretty much confirms our thoughts here and yes Eddie - it appears to be a smash and grab job.

Dan

Hi Guys,

Have just taken on a new client (.co.uk domain) and during our research have identified they also have a .com domain which is a replica of the existing site but all links lead to the .co.uk domain. As a result of this, the .com replica is pushing 5,000,000+ links to the .co.uk site.

After speaking to the client, it appears they were approached by a company who said that they could get the .com site ranking for local search queries and then push all that traffic to .co.uk. From analytics we can see that very little referrer traffic is coming from the .com.

It sounds remarkably dodgy to us - surely the duplicate site is an issue anyway for obvious reasons, these links could also be deemed as being created for SEO gain?

Does anyone have any experience of this as a tactic?

Thanks,

Dan

Thanks for your quick reply.

I was told this by the dev guy who built the site after I requested the offending content be displayed as an image (or some other way) because I was concerned about duplicate content issues across the site.

There isn't masses of it - just thought it could potentially cause a problem.

I've had this discussion many times and it occurs frequently across sites - what would you do with said content? It's about 300 words I guess...

Hi Guys,

Just after some clarification - I have recently been told that by placing content in

<aside></aside>

tags spiders will ignore the content. Is this the case? I always thought that content placed in these tags was to identify related content.

To put the query into some context, we have the same content on multiple pages on a site, which is relevant to the main body copy - but could throw up duplicate content issues...

Thanks in advance.