"Duplicate" site - A different question

[ernstt]

I have had a web site listed on Google for over a year now. I have had my site on the first Google page for my important keywords for the whole time. I am in South Africa and we are marketing a unique product with unique features etc. A company in Australia who is the sole distributor of the product now, asked me to set up a web site for them. Because they are a totally seperate company from us we do not have any other relation with them apart from the fact that they are selling our product over there. The web site that I did for them has
1) a different URL ( obviously )
2) a different first page apart from some product features listed there. Because the technical specs etc. are the same, the other pages are about 90% the same.
3) A link (reciprocal ) to each site so that clients getting to our site can contact them.

Is Google seeing this as a duplicate site?

Sites are
http://myweb.absa.co.za/ernstt
http://ecosanaustralia.com.au

I will appreciate any help or suggestions.

ET

[fathom]

If there is no linkage between the two sites they will do fine...

If you link to each then the newer one "with same page content" will likely be removed from Google... as one "original page" will do.

Your choices are simple:

1. don't link, or

2. spend time rewriting new text copy!