This article provides a comprehensive guide for owners of replicated websites on how to attract visitors. It discusses the challenges faced by these website owners, particularly in terms of search engine optimization, and offers practical solutions to overcome these hurdles.
Congratulations! You've just discovered an incredible opportunity. A new affiliate business that offers top commissions, free autoresponders, and most importantly, your very own free replicated website. You've been promised that all you need to do is join, and you'll receive all these benefits for free. Plus, you won't have to lift a finger, as your site will be promoted in various ways and submitted to numerous search engines to drive traffic to your new site.
However, there's a catch. While everything else may work perfectly for you and your replicated site, you can forget about traffic from search engines. Why? Because all replicated and duplicate sites have identical code, information, graphics, and so on. The only difference lies in the members' ID numbers, which are irrelevant to the search engine robots that collect information from web pages.
After visiting a few pages with the same information and graphics, these robots recognize them as duplicates. Assuming that someone has submitted multiple submissions for the same page, they view it as spamming.
The consequence? They won't list it in the directories and may even ban the main URL from any further searches. Granted, not all traffic comes from search engines. Depending on the specific search engine and your site's ranking, you can get as much as 30% or more of your traffic from search engines.
Despite search engines ignoring your replicated website, there's a way to attract traffic from them. The solution is to build a separate page on your domain or have someone build one for you on their domain. Your page title, description, and keywords can then be optimized and submitted to the search engines.
The search engines will then consider your page as valid content and will list it in their directory. The key here is that the special page you've built will have links directing visitors to your replicated site.
Voila! You now have visitors from search engines like Alta Vista, Lycos, Hot Bot, Google, and many more.
Here's to the success of home-based marketers!
