Duplicate Sites?

Hi there
Just wondering if Google sees it as bad when there are 2 websites with the (somewhat) same content. I have 2 sites, one catered to Canada (a .ca site) and one catered to the US (a .us site) and there are some slight wording modifications but overall, they are mostly the same.

I just want to make sure I take the proper steps so that neither site gets delisted for duplicated content.

Thanks!

 

yes may be it's called Mirror Sites because of that Google.com can banned your both sites

 

So how would I go about launching the 2 sites? I have 2 different markets but have the same content for them?! and obviously the currency difference

 

I think the domain TLD makes the difference, Google sees them as different sites, hence not penalized for duplicate content.

 

90% identical content leads to ban!

 

Ivan... where did you get that stat? Even as Traffic-bug mentioned, different tld's?

 

yep its true 90% identical content brings you to ban! i have an experienced in 2 of my websites i made a duplication in keyword, description, content... after google crawl my websites the index at backlinks lost.

 

So how do you solve this issue then? How about creating one main page and have 2 identical subpages?

 

90% same content = ban man.

 

maybe try and have one site which is where everyone ends up - as opposed to two seperate sites which are idential of each other

 

they will penelize no matter it is in Ca or USA
same content = ban

 

Yes, I would take the most popular of your two sites and make it redirect to the other. I know that doesn't solve your canadian one being indexed better in canada, and the us one better in the us, but it is a solution

 

Sure will be banned.. But I thing if make redirection Google will not consider as duplicate

 

if u write different content then google dont mind for that

 

Yeah it will surely be banned if they have the same content.
You better modify it...

 

Its better that you redirect the one domain to the other by using 301 redirection. At the moment 301 redirection 'follows' the anchor text and most of the Pagerank. Also you should use a google webmaster tool called 'change of address'.

 

Ya, duplicant content is not good. Atleast change the text/articles on it.

 

It would be better to change the meta elements (title, desciption, Keywords etc) first and the content need to be modified.

 

same two site content banned google

 

Or direct traffic to same site...