Google's 8 Specific Quality Guidelines Revisited

Today, i came across an article written by Mei Rose Galang. She had 8 things which she says, Google has warned us not to do. These 8 items are concerned with the quality of your content and cover a few old & known black hat techniques.

Below is one of them

Google's 8 Specific Quality Guidelines Revisited: "
5.Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
In addition to that, don't make multiple domains that are only established to increase site traffic. Don't use pages on other domains to redirect traffic to your site, don't use mirror sites, those with exact content but different domains and too many pages in SERP that redirects to your site. These techniques gives instant results but expect to be banned when you get caught."


But a few of you out there already have a problem with this one because you own both a .net and a .com of the same name. You did this to protect yourself and perhaps since then your IT people have duplicated the data from your .com site to your .net site.

Some,seo experts would say, who cares if the .net gets penalized and gets a low ranking?

But since both sites belong to the same organization and likely sit on the same ip address, perhaps you don't want to so easily give yourself a potential black-eye.

We would advise, use a server side redirect from the .net to the .com site and don't put any content on the .net domain. If you don't know what a server side redirect is, and you dont have access to IT staff, then just use a metatag refresh to redirect your index page on the .net site to your index page on the .com site.

Here is an example that sends the user to espn.com 3 seconds after landing on your page:

[head]
[meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; url=http://www.espn.com" /]
[/head]

pls replace the [ with < and the ] with >