MLM Cookie Cutter Website and Duplicate Content
Patti in South Carolina sent me a question today: I have a premade website from a company I work for. It is an MLM organization, and the website isn't able to be edited. I can't download an html or meta-tag. How can I submit it to the major search engines if I can't edit it?
Patti, I have looked at a number of MLM cookie cutter websites and have seldom seen any that make it into the Google index. These websites are typically duplicate content, which Google says they do not like, and most of them are in a directory within the main company web, which is the case with your website.
A quick look at the robots.txt file for the domain shows disallow statements for a number of MLM partners or distributors, meaning that the MLM company is preventing these directories from being crawled by spiders and robots. Your directory is not in the robots.txt file at the moment.
You can submit your directory to Google and the other search engines, Patti, but I doubt seriously if this will do you any good. The best bet, if you want to use the Internet to promote your products, is either pay-per-click advertising or create your own unique website and do it your way.
In my youth I was involved in several MLM "opportunities" from Amway on up. They all sounded great. The guys and girls at the top who helped with the initial network creation all made a lot of money. I made a little money on one, broke even on one, and still have products in storage somewhere that all have expired born on dates :-( MLM is the best method I have ever discovered to alienate your family and friends. If you want to run them off, try to sign them up. It's a great tool for chilling out your mother in law.
Cheers,
Ron Castle
Patti, I have looked at a number of MLM cookie cutter websites and have seldom seen any that make it into the Google index. These websites are typically duplicate content, which Google says they do not like, and most of them are in a directory within the main company web, which is the case with your website.
A quick look at the robots.txt file for the domain shows disallow statements for a number of MLM partners or distributors, meaning that the MLM company is preventing these directories from being crawled by spiders and robots. Your directory is not in the robots.txt file at the moment.
You can submit your directory to Google and the other search engines, Patti, but I doubt seriously if this will do you any good. The best bet, if you want to use the Internet to promote your products, is either pay-per-click advertising or create your own unique website and do it your way.
In my youth I was involved in several MLM "opportunities" from Amway on up. They all sounded great. The guys and girls at the top who helped with the initial network creation all made a lot of money. I made a little money on one, broke even on one, and still have products in storage somewhere that all have expired born on dates :-( MLM is the best method I have ever discovered to alienate your family and friends. If you want to run them off, try to sign them up. It's a great tool for chilling out your mother in law.
Cheers,
Ron Castle
Labels: Duplicate Content, MLM Website
posted by Ron Castle at
5:03 PM
1 Comments:
Hello blog author,
I am facing this kind of problem with my mlm website clients. But i think your ideas for the mlm website is good and working. so i would like to apply this when i am developing mlm websites for my clients
thank you,
Kathaperumal P
mlm website developer/designer
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