OK slightly off topic but what do I mean by Cruise Deals Dupe Google? Knowing a little about search engine optimization I was plugging through endless cruise related search results last night and found that Cruise Deals (.co.uk) have exact copies of their websites within at least 2 sub domains, one being google.cruisedeals and another being msn.cruisedeals.

So why is this duping Google for cruise deals? Well Google tell us for one not to have duplicate content, this is a blatant breach of their webmaster guidelines. Sub domains are treated almost like individual domains and so by doing this Cruise Deals get 3 bites at the Cherry. What they are also doing is giving three times as many links to their 4 other websites from links down the left hand side of their web pages. If you were to check, lets say Ski Deals, you will see that their is at least 1 sub domain (google.skideals(.co.uk)) again giving extra links back to the Cruise Deals website.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that using other websites to gain position is necessarily wrong, using duplicate content in the way that Cruise Deals has done is very, very wrong.

Another part of the web site, Cruise Deals 2010 has been added to the cruise network and once again there is a place where prices for cruises can be obtained via a contact form, this will send your request to a UK based Cruise Deals specialist.

We supplied the wrong web address for the Cruise Deals 2009 site, this has now been rectified although is no longer needed. Quite a bit of work is still needed on Cruise Deals 2010 and this will take place over the next few weeks.

We are please to announce that Cruise Deals 2009 has joined our growing network of cruise related web sites where there is a place where prices for cruises can be obtained via a contact form, this will send your request to a UK based Cruise Deals specialist.

Quite a bit of work is needed on the web site; however it will soon be a complete resource on Cruise Deals 2009.

In order for us to rank highly for as many words as possible I have added a Cruise Deals page to the website. This page will eventually be changed to some great cruise holidays, however that may be a few weeks away yet. Though we are working on it.

At Cruisegle our philosophy is to offer you the best Cruise Deals in the cruising world!

We recently changed the focus from Cruise Deals to Cheap Cruises; why you may ask? Well there is little or no difference in the number of searches for each, however when creating a page for cruise deals it is best to include things like Ferry or Ferries, however these are not ships and for true cruising you need a ship, preferably a cruise ship.

I also feel using the term cruise deals is a little more American than British, next I will need to say cruise vacation in stead of our term cruise holiday. Anyway that is enough of being silly, after all I want this to be a respected Cruise Deals website…there I go again!