Thanks for the helpful reply Alan! Can you please explain this - "If it's only a few pages, sure, duplicate content there could have an impact". How duplicate content issues vary between small and big sites? I was under the impression that number of pages do not have any influence in duplicate content.

Is it okay to use the same privacy policy and terms of use across different websites as long as i noindex,follow them?

Thanks for the reply Ryan! But if i don't block it via robots.txt file or noindex tag, will it affect my site negatively? I mean the overall site

Hi,

If i use same terms of use and privacy policy content across my websites, does it amounts to duplicate content issues? Does it affect my websites in any manner?

Regards

Here you go http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Yeah, i too would like to know about it. Can you provide more details - query, Google (which country) and the sites in question?

The question has already been very well answered. Having a comprehensive knowledge base on the same domain in separate folder can yield maximum and best SEO benefits.

IMO, it can't be a deciding factor. I believe the site has higher number of quality backlinks than you do.

Why would you want to do it? Since you want to rank for the same term, it will only divide your resources as you will have to work on both of them.

Even if want to do this way, make sure not to go for illegitimate link building between the two domains. Moreover, Google is quite smart to identify SERP Hijacking methods.