[welshhuw]

Hi,

I was asked my someone today if the following was possible:

The 'example' websites below are almost identical, in that design is the same (except logo) and of course the content is different on each site.. (They have around 300 websites like this under the same topic but different variations!)

example-number-1.co.uk
example-number-2.co.uk
example-number-3.co.uk
example-number-4.co.uk
example-number-5.co.uk
etc.....

They would like a blog on each site. Like this:
www.example-number1.co.uk/blog/
www.example-number-2.co.uk/blog/
etc...


Would it be at all possible to only have ONE blog (Wordpress or similar?), that will be able to link to the /blog/ directories of each site?


I hope that makes sense?!!?



Basically if i had a website called www.example.com and I then wanted to install a blog, I could do so by uploading/installing to www.example.co.uk/blog/ - But they don't want 300 blogs to update with the exact same content!
They want 1 blog, that will show up under all of those domain names.

The only way I thought may be a possibility is if they have 300 re-directs setup to the actual blog url...
a) Is this possible with 300 re-directs?!
Would it be possible to NOT show the URL of the actual blog, but the www.example-1.co.uk/blog, www.example-2.co.uk/blog/ ???


Thanks in advance



Huw

[Renaissance-Design]

Easily possible, but I have to ask: why? The sites will soon get slammed with duplicate content penalties and only one will ever see the benefit of the blog.

[BlueDreamer]

^ my question exactly... sounds like a spamming operation to me

It's more than possible to have a central admin that feeds to multiple site, many CMS have that facility.

[Sogo7]

As RD said the searchbot will take umbridge at duplicate content so the key to making the process succesful would be in the variations of the mirrors, bit like carnival funhouse.

Using one blog as the central feed with all the posts and the satelite blogs being fed portions of the original either at at random or specialising on a particular theme eg one sub-blog for general rants another for cool cars, large breasted pop-stars and so on.

Further muddying of the contents origins can also be achieved by replacing certain words or phrases with equivelents on the fly server side during the transfer process. For example 'Microsoft' becomes 'Micro$oft' or 'home town' becomes 'the corner of the world I live in' and basically go bersek with a thesaurus for everything else.

[welshhuw]

Thanks for your replies - and yes - the duplicate content would be an issue, but not sure that they care?!

I work with WordPress personally - How could I go about doing this? Using WordPress?

Is there a lot of work involved that may be outta my depth?!

Thanks

[zed]

no API's out there to pull the blog data in?

[brightonmike]

welshhuw, on 14 July 2011 - 08:52 AM, said:

Thanks for your replies - and yes - the duplicate content would be an issue, but not sure that they care?!

"Not sure"?

[Sogo7]

Well they say the Customer is allways right..
(often confused and barking mad to boot, but nevertheless right)

If they want it word for word duplicated it's their money.

I don't do a lot with Wordpress myself so not up to speed on the database would keep the blogs content, so some help may needed from a dedicated WP forum to extract the data.

[porkchops]

Besides all the obvious negatives...

Couldn't you just use htaccess to direct each domain to the same actual blog? Using rewrite you can make the URL bar stay with the domain.