Say you own a few domains with the same name, just various country extensions. Example: computers.com computers.ca computers.eu All of the content that you produce for example is on computers.com, but on computers.ca you have the same content, just limited to what is from Canada, and for .eu what is relevant to Europe. But the .com has all of the content of the three. Would google penalize for this?
I'd stay away from replicating content across regional domains in this way. Just think logically...if it was perfectly acceptable to use identical content in different regions what would prevent anyone from cloning pretty much any site they want across these multiple markets? Nothing, so as a result it wouldn't make sense for Google to allow this. If they're all English speaking markets you could take a gamble at removing any geotargetting on the .com and optimise for several English speaking markets at once, however, this may work (although I wouldn't count on it!) pretty well for widely spoken languages is slightly less developed online markets (such as Spanish, etc.) and build localised links from each of the respective countries you wish to rank well in, but I'd think English markets are likely to be far too competitive for this to work. So in my opinion you should invest in rehashing your current web content and maintain unique content for each of the regional markets you intend to operate within. So in my opinion you should invest in rehasing your current web content and maintain unique content for each of the regional markets you intend to operate within.
Well we own the content so we should be able to do with it as we please. But targeting different regions with the same content on different URLs is the question. Whether its worth it or not is also the question, if they are all english markets then why bother?
Yes you will be penalize for duplicate content. It would be a better idea write separate content for each sites.
Ok thank you. I'm assuming that if the text is translated into another language that wouldn't be the same?
Many big companies, especially ones that target a world-wide audience over the internet, will register multiple domain names. 1st, To keep people from 'phishing'. 2nd, to make finding the site easier. Example; www.abc.com www.abc.biz www.abc.net www.abc.co.uk etc... Its perfectly normal and legal, even encouraged by some domain registrants.