Will a duplicate page on .net hurt me?

[AllThePieces]

A public relations agency that I'm thinking about working with is offering to heavily promote an article about my website to several of the media sources in my industry.

What they want me to do is duplicate my homepage at allthepieces.com and create a second home page at: allthepieces.net

The .net address is what will be used in the article so that we can directly track the results of the article placements.

Will that hurt my rankings?

[cbp]

Think about it --- why would any search engine want to clutter up their database with more than one copy of a page or site?

CBP

[AllThePieces]

What about an re-direct page? Is that a bad idea?

[mony30]

If you duplicate your web page using the same text content , search engine will consider it spam & yes of course it will hurt your rankings , the solution is to have a different website with different content & make them link all together. this will be a good chance to increase your rankings.

monia
www.moonsearchengineoptimization.com

[yjs]

Yeah that will be hurting your website - sooner or later. Go for completely fresh content , though you may stick to the same-name URL (.net). That wont hurt.....

[johnyfav]

How are they going to be promoting this page?

Basically this is how i would look at it.

If they are going to use websites - setup a redirect.

Basically this page would have some simple asp/ado code that went along the lines of -

<code>

add time and date to table in database
add the referrer
add the browser header
re - direct to the page in question

</code>

You could do the same with e-mails as well - maybe add a query string to see what e-mail?

Just some idea i would think about.