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.

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

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…