Initial thoughts a week and a half after spinning off slicksurface.ca as a separate domain…

We’re embarking on a rather challenging test today - adding 166,000+ pages to slicksurface.com when it only has 185 pages currently. Google says we shouldn’t do it, but we’re doing it anyway…

The folks at Google Webmaster Central stated pretty clearly at SES NY that there won’t be duplicate content penalties for domains with identical content but different TLDs - provided each is targeted at a specific country. So we’re testing that theory by making slicksurface.ca a separate site…

Controlling spiders on your site can be difficult. Now you find they’re accessing pages you never intended because they view the robots.txt file as case sensitive - even if they know your site is not case sensitive…

This session at SES NY went over how search engines detect and deal with duplicate content and the strategies you can use to reduce duplicate content on your site.