Duplicate the site

[magicosta +]

Hello everybody,

One of my client would like to get 10 classified web site and want to pay the minimum. So He is telling me that I coul do the following:

Let's say I buy ten licenses to set up 10 classified web site. I do the first one, I customize the script and call it "classifieds 1". Then to set up the other 9, I just copy the same code and just change the domain name: "classifieds 2" , "classifieds 3" etc...

What will happen with Google? will it be considered as spam?

Thank you for your answer.

[Lhotch +]

If they have different domains then it shouldnt be considered spam.

[magicosta +]

Ok, thank you Larry

[seymourjames +]

They will be very un likely to index/rank these sites well.

Think about it - why would they if they are copies. it is easy to spot copies. How is it serving their customers if the content is identical? What you need to do is mask the advertising content by changing the layout around it in a big way. New templates, dynamically assigned alt tags on images, dynamically assigned title tags on links, a different link structure, different home/extra pages, promos on categories, etc etc and even then google is likely to spot an identical advert. This why a lot of big sites that know their adverts are duplicates (people just copy and past) sometimes try to stop google indexing those pages. My advice is to think about how you will make these sites different if you want them indexed and ranking. I have to do this all the time with property sites because the adverts are often identical.