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Old 03-11-2008, 04:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I just noticed something looking at a competitor’s site. The site is a web design outfit, they have identical pages targeting different cities in the Meta Keywords.

For Example:
website-design.php?comm_pk=8 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Algounquin)
website-design.php?comm_pk=9 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Aurora)
website-design.php?comm_pk=7 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Bartlett)
Etc, etc, same content for each page except city name is changed. Is this ok to do? I mean can I take my home page, and make various identical pages with html extensions that reflect a different city?

For Example:

Mysite.com-webdesignin-chicago.html
Mysite.com-webdesignin-bartlett.html
Mysite.com-webdesignin-barrington.html

Hope this makes sense, what gives?
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Old 03-11-2008, 06:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What they did is quite ok.
comm_pk=8, comm_pk=9 ... makes the url treated as a different url.
So website-design.php?comm_pk=8 and website-design.php?comm_pk=9 are not same page. They are changing the meta tags dynamically. Which is quite ok. Its not a black-hat. You can call it green-hat
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Old 03-11-2008, 06:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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So, I could do the same thing..I'm on to them..thx..
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You can do the same thing so long as the urls are different. It is definitely not black hat
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Make them apply to that area - don't duplicate info - that's just lazy work
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Thx, they seem to be getting away with it, at Yahoo at least, they are #1 for each Township.
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Its grey hat, but you can do it and get away with it.
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I just noticed something looking at a competitor’s site. The site is a web design outfit, they have identical pages targeting different cities in the Meta Keywords.

For Example:
website-design.php?comm_pk=8 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Algounquin)
website-design.php?comm_pk=9 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Aurora)
website-design.php?comm_pk=7 (meta name="keywords" Web Design in Bartlett)
Etc, etc, same content for each page except city name is changed. Is this ok to do? I mean can I take my home page, and make various identical pages with html extensions that reflect a different city?

For Example:

Mysite.com-webdesignin-chicago.html
Mysite.com-webdesignin-bartlett.html
Mysite.com-webdesignin-barrington.html

Hope this makes sense, what gives?
Both will work well. Black hat isn't as bad as people make out. If it makes money, it makes sense.
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Surely this should trip the dup content filter though! How are they avoiding this if the content is the same on each page?
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Black hat isn't as bad as people make out. If it makes money, it makes sense.
Not entirely true. If you want to stay in the business for long - be on the safer side of things. Black Hat is only good for "quick bucks" and limited time exposure on SE's.
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