Internationazliation and Duplicate Content Issues

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by supriya21, Feb 14, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hi Everyone,

    This is my first post on this forum. Look forward to being part of this community.
    Here is my question.

    We have example.com in English that has 50,000+ URLs. We are in the process of building a new site example.de targeting German users.

    The German site example.de will be a mirror of the English site at launch as we want to give a full experience to people visiting the .de domain. However, not all pages will be localized as we can't support that. We are planning on localizing the core sets of pages (~500) and leaving the rest in English. Post launch, we will have additional milestones to localize the remaining pages until the entire site is localized (converted to German).

    Is this the correct way to go? Will this cause duplicate content issue?
    Will adding "rel=canonical" tag and/or "noidex" tag on the English pages on .de site solve the purpose?

    I read Google guidelines but would love get real life feedback from site owners/SEOs/marketers out there.

    Appreciate your time and help!

    Supriya.
     
    supriya21, Feb 14, 2011 IP
  2. HighRollerT

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    add the canonical tag and not the noindex...you still want google to see these pages.
     
    HighRollerT, Feb 14, 2011 IP