Our duplicate content test - to see if we could get slicksurface.ca indexed - basically failed. Despite what Google stated, the site was not viewed as being targeted to the Canadian audience and was never able to get traction.

Despite what the folks at Google say, establishing a site targeted at another country isn’t as easy as duplicating your site and slapping a country-specific TLD domain on it.

Against the advice of the folks at Google, we put up a medical thesaurus with over 166,000 pages (they say to limit the number of new pages to about 10,000) - and things went really well. The pages got indexed and we’ve started seeing an uptick in traffic.

After finding someone with a wordpress.com ripping off the content of this blog, I alerted WordPress and it wasn’t just that they took down the offending content - the whole blog went dead.