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Thanks Veronica,

Im trying to give you a good answer but am getting a 500 server error from moz.com

Hi All,

Our hosting provider have their IP address range in Melbourne but offers servers in Sydney or Melbourne..  If we were to take a server in Sydney and an IP address from their Melbourne range (only IP range offered) will the new localisation updates to the Penguin/Possum Algorithms serve less up to our clients in Sydney thinking we are located in Melbourne?

Sorry if im confusing.. I know I am

Hi Cindy,

Great Question - I'm not sure what to suggest - probably suggest opening up a new question just to be sure you get eyes on it!

Good Luck!

Thanks B,

I'll suggest this as an option - the reason not to do rel can's is because we want to index organically on Google for both brands..

Cheers

D!

Thanks Patrick - it all helps heaps!!!

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your awesome reply,   We have 2 brands that we have to run (coming from executive team - merger agreement). I'll maybe go back about unique content.

Cheers

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply.  We have 2 brands that we have to run (coming from executive team - merger agreementt). Unfortunately both brands have been aligned to have exactly the same products.  There are 2 niches (ie personas) but the products are exactly the same, with the  same Product descriptions and same terms and conditions, rates and imagery.

Cheers,

Dave

Hi All,

I would love if someone could help and provide some insights on this.  We're a financial institution and have a set of products that we offer.

We have recently joined with another brand and will now be offering all our products to their customers.

What we are looking to do is have 1 site that masks the content for both sites so it appears as there are 2 seperate brands with different content - in fact we have a main site and then a sister brand that offers the same products.

Is there anyway to do this so when someone searches for Credit Card from Brand A it is indexed under Brand A and same when someone searched for Credit Card from Brand B it is indexed under Brand B.

The one thing is we would not want to rel:can the pages nor be penalised by googles latest PR algorithm.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

Dave

Thanks Gents,

Great answers - much appreciated

Hi All,

I hope someone can assist, We have 2 brands that sell the exact same products.  We have a main and an off brand. We just redeveloped the main brands site and now have to do the off brand (was owned by another company and we acquired them, we then changed their products to match ours).

Am I able to pretty much clone the site and just change the branding and rel canonical each page to its original on the main brand?  Granted I will lose rankings but will it be something that will affect anything else?

I want to do this so it saves us time in updating products on both sites (and avoids errors in incorrect pricing).

Would appreciate some guidance with this one

Cheers

Dave

Hi Derek,

In the research I have done having a do follow link to a site that does the same to you could be conceived by google as a bit of link farming.  If its valid content / reason to do so then great and everything in moderation will get you by.

I'd be cautious about doing it more than just a few times in you LBS.  Admit I'm no expert though.

Cheers

Bowey

Thanks Patrick - helps alot

Hi All,

I hope someone can assist, We have 2 brands that sell the exact same products.  We have a main and an off brand. We just redeveloped the main brands site and now have to do the off brand (was owned by another company and we acquired them, we then changed their products to match ours).

Am I able to pretty much clone the site and just change the branding and rel canonical each page to its original on the main brand?  Granted I will lose rankings but will it be something that will affect anything else?

I want to do this so it saves us time in updating products on both sites (and avoids errors in incorrect pricing).

Would appreciate some guidance with this one

Cheers

Dave

Hi All,

I would love if someone could help and provide some insights on this.  We're a financial institution and have a set of products that we offer.

We have recently joined with another brand and will now be offering all our products to their customers.

What we are looking to do is have 1 site that masks the content for both sites so it appears as there are 2 seperate brands with different content - in fact we have a main site and then a sister brand that offers the same products.

Is there anyway to do this so when someone searches for Credit Card from Brand A it is indexed under Brand A and same when someone searched for Credit Card from Brand B it is indexed under Brand B.

The one thing is we would not want to rel:can the pages nor be penalised by googles latest PR algorithm.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

Dave

Hi Lauren,

Have you still got a link to your google+ profile in the header of your site? e.g (href="https://plus.google.com/106215912994175247015" rel="publisher" />)

Cheers

Dave

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your awesome reply,   We have 2 brands that we have to run (coming from executive team - merger agreement). I'll maybe go back about unique content.

Cheers

Hi Cindy,

Great Question - I'm not sure what to suggest - probably suggest opening up a new question just to be sure you get eyes on it!

Good Luck!

Hi All,

Our hosting provider have their IP address range in Melbourne but offers servers in Sydney or Melbourne..  If we were to take a server in Sydney and an IP address from their Melbourne range (only IP range offered) will the new localisation updates to the Penguin/Possum Algorithms serve less up to our clients in Sydney thinking we are located in Melbourne?

Sorry if im confusing.. I know I am

Thanks Veronica,

Im trying to give you a good answer but am getting a 500 server error from moz.com