Penalties for similar website content?? e.g. abc.com & abc.co.uk

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by forces55, Jan 8, 2008.

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    Hi,

    anyone has experience having more than 1 website serving different geographical markets, say 80% of the web content are similar but 20% are customized for the particular market e.g. .com and co.uk for USA and UK respectively.

    Will the websites be "penalized" for having duplicate content by the search engines?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    forces55, Jan 8, 2008 IP
  2. Spider-Man

    Spider-Man Banned

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    If the content is similar then yes, it will have an effect. Create fresh content for both sites and apply rel=nofollow attributes to all links between the two sites.
     
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  3. forces55

    forces55 Peon

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    Noted. Thanks Spider-Man.
     
    forces55, Jan 8, 2008 IP
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    mascot Active Member

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    DUPLICATE PENALTY is severe :eek:. Make sure to remove any duplicate content ASAP :(
     
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    Customize content for different market is not a problem as long as you don’t try to show a different content for google bot.

    And regarding duplicate content, its sad that actually duplicate content could beat the original content in SERPs.
     
    mymaldives, Jan 9, 2008 IP