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Here is my two cents and take it for what it's worth.  We took a .com site written in English and hosted in the U.S., duplicated the website content but redesigned the website.  The duplicated content and new design was then hosted in Germany hoping to target UK and English searches in Europe, the website was a complete flop.  We then took the duplicate content and had a professional translation service convert the exact content on the U.S. website to German and updated the new site and it started performing very well.  We took the same approach in France and our other target markets; however, it didn't work in the UK.

You're most welcome! Have a good weekend too and lots of success with the cleanup