Duplicate Content for International Sites

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone will have some good ideas for this.

We currently have international versions of our site in different languages. Therefore there are no duplicate content issues.

However, we are due to be expanding into other territories that speak English. It is very hard to change the content enough to be localised and make it unique enough.

How can I get round this duplicate content issue? We need to have a dedicated site per territory.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Is the other sites has different IP?...

 

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry, I should have stated that the IP address is the same for all versions of the site.

Thanks.

 

Though i have already asked this question in another thread, I find this thread to be more nearer to my question.

what if two different domains have same content? Lets say, there is a company having 2 different domains with different geographical locations and it wants to have the same content on both the sites. Reason being that the company offers its services in different countries and wants different sites for different geographical location.

How can it affect the ranking? Is there any other way to represent the company's functioning for two different countries rather than having two different domains? Can sub-domains help here? For e.g. For US the subdomain can be US.abc.com and for UK it can be UK.abc.com... Can this work?

Will SEs penalize for duplicate content on international sites?

 

I think that if two different domains have the same content Google will choose some of them, probably the older one and mark it like the "original" and the other or others with the same content will be lower or will not be in the google search results.

 

I don't know what happens if you have the same site in .com and for example, in .ca.
If you search in Google Canada it will show links of your .ca domain?

 

geo serve different versions to different countries?

 

I've asked the same question on this forum before and didn't get an easy to implement answer. I have .co.uk sites and want to go into different territories. The most plausible advice I got was that there was no safe way to go except to have unique content on the different sites.