Duplicate Content?

I work for a firm that has three versions of it for regional targeting.

Site A: UAE (hosted in Amsterdam) .ae domain
Site B: India (Hosted in Bangalore) co.in domain
Site C: UK (hosted in London) co.uk domain

The UAE site has American spellings but, that being said, it's all the same content, except for address and company name and region keywords in the content.

Note: I have never been in this situation before.

So, I go to Google Webmasters to let the UAE website target all regions, except UK and India, but in vain: Google says, with country-specific domains will only target the respective countries.

My question is: will my company's websites get penalized with the dupe content? If so, what pecautions do I need to take at this moment? Obviously, there is the canonical URL but it doesn't make sense to me.

Please help.

 

Since the names, addresses and keywords are different, I think there shouldn’t be any problems. Are the other two sites targeted for all regions, too? Do the UK and India pages also have American spelling? Are the pages interrelated? Cause if that’s the case and they have the same content, that could be a problem. Besides the canonical URL, the solution could be setting up your preferred domain and/or parameter handling, depending on your URL structure.

 

Is it not possible to rewrite the content so that each site turns out to be unique?

 

Check your 3 website content in some seo tool to identify the content is unique or not.
Also another concept is if content is not unique then you can use the "blockquote"

 

Well i think if the domains are diferent it would not be such a big problem

 

Use canonical tag to resolve this problem
<link rel="canonical" href" " />

 

The rel=canonical element, often called the “canonical link”, is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues. It does this by specifying the “canonical URL”, the “preferred” version of a web page. Using it well improves a site's SEO