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Originally Posted by Old Welsh Guy
If I can throw in some of my experience here. So far you are talking about sites, but Google can do a LOT more harm than just sites.
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Not sure how, once the site is gone, it is gone
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Originally Posted by Old Welsh Guy
If both sites have duplicate content, and both sites have deep links to different pages, i have seen on numerous occasions half of the pages from BOTH sites dropped (so that if you put both sites pages together you get one site (if you see what i mean).
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I've never seen that happen before. But even if it did you would have what would be equal to one site.
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Originally Posted by Old Welsh Guy
The result of this is the the whole flow of link juice between BOTH sites internal linking is slaughtered and they drop out. Not because of a penalty as such, but because pages were removed and Google left in the pages that it considered the most relevant (killing the structural flow of both sites along the way.
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It would be very, very unlikely that something like that would happen. It would require that someone had spent an equal amount of time marketing both domain names.