Hi,

I have a forum that runs on two seperate domains. The first domain is a .ie and the second is a .co.uk . I set it up this way as non forum parts of my site were optimized differently, one for the irish market and the other for the uk market.

When you go to my forum on the .ie domain or the .co.uk domain the content is exactly the same for each topic i.e. if you go to www.myirishsite.ie/forum/topic=112 or www.myuksite.co.uk/forum/topic=112 the page will look exactly the same.

I know this gives duplicate content issues but it seem to be doing fine and google seems to know whats going on. On google.co.uk the UK version ranks no.2 for the term "ps3 forum" and on google.ie the irish version ranks no.2 for "ps3 forum". If i put in a long tail search query from a post someone made on the forum sometimes google.ie will bring up the .ie page or sometimes the .co.uk version or vise versa so it just eliminates one of the site.

I was thinking about 301'ing the irish site to the uk site but i am worried that i will lose a lot of the traffic i get from google.ie. Has anyone got any experience with this? I dont seem to be being penalized for duplicate content but do you think i would be doing better if i just stuck to one domain?

Thanks

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