Noob questions about SEO and Google

So I am using hostgator baby plan for my web hosting. I can get unlimited domains on this plan. Right now I am setting up a basic niche site with my primary domain. It is very noobish because I am not cloaking links and I am just ripping reviews from other sites. It's basically just a test site.

So my question is, since I will probably get heavily penalized from this site, will it affect any other websites that I put up on the same hosting plan?

Also, do penalties get removed or anything? Say after a couple weeks I decide to make my site legit. Would the previously noobish history affect the future of my site?

Does HostGator set up multiple domains as 1 primary and the rest as subdomains?

You can setup multiple domains with no prob...

Op, you should have no problem once this test is complete... but if you setup a bunch of duplicate content you may damage this domain completely... (aka, it might be de-indexed). If you don't mind burning the domain, go ahead with the test... if not, write new articles or pay someone else to and post them instead.

nome33 said:

Does HostGator set up multiple domains as 1 primary and the rest as subdomains?

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Not sure. What would that have to do with anything?

Ok I looked it up and it is an add-on domain which is basically a subdomain.

Hostgator does allow multiple domains... their addon domains are seperate domains - I have about 10 on mine right now.

OldSalt said:

Hostgator does allow multiple domains... their addon domains are seperate domains - I have about 10 on mine right now.

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So do you think all of your sites rank independently of one another?