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Duplicate content on International sites

by chrisv24
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Hi,

I hope you guys can clear something up for me.

I recently started working at a European company and we have 12 websites (one for each country we operate in). The sites are in Drupal and each time we need a new site the process has been that the sites and content are cloned and then we translate the content to the desired language.

e.g. If I want a site for Spain, we clone the UK site and put it onto www.companyname.es and translate the content.

We are in the process of doing the same for an Irish website, but as the content doesn't need translating it will be an exact duplicate. I am concerned about duplicate content with this approach, but our agency say its nothing to worry about because google we see that we own both sites.

What do you think?
#content #duplicate #international #sites
  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    If you don't mind having a low ranking and receiving no traffic from Google, you can go ahead. Duplicate content won't rank - that's a fact.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      If you don't mind having a low ranking and receiving no traffic from Google, you can go ahead. Duplicate content won't rank - that's a fact.
      It ranks all the time, and this thread has nothing to do with duplicate content that
      would even remotely even come close to being anything that google or any other
      sane algorithm in the world would ever contemplate.

      Such silly crap. I just can't believe the stuff that comes out here.

      Here's a newsflash. Wikipedia translates everything, clones it for language.
      Hence, I get rerouted to en.wikipedia.org. A very simple idea, actually.
      Somebody who wants Spanish, gets es.wikipedia.org. Same thing.

      Every big site in the world uses duplicate content, from ebay to amazon,
      from yahoo to NYT.

      It ranks everyday just fine. Period. End of story. Done and done.

      But, silly people and some guy who lives a cave who said something
      to a clam shell about dupe content gets worshiped.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author shafiqrifat
        Actually Duplicate content will harm your site so i think have to avoid it more.

        Thank you
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        • Profile picture of the author savidge4
          Because the pages have different "Target" audiences, the ideas of duplicate content kind of fall to the way side. As long as they are segmented by geo, duplicate content should be fine, not really suggested but fine.

          refer here for a not so clear definition: https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/182192?hl=en
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    Duplicate content is still frowned upon by Google. So it wouldn't be a good idea! However, why don't you re-write it? Paraphrase everything, modify it, do anything just don't copy-paste it.
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  • Profile picture of the author fugenxuae
    If you can Your Content in Any Language Search engine identifies has a duplicate content so don't use the content it will affect all the website..
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  • Profile picture of the author rosario1990
    I don't think duplicate content much help you for getting more visitors. So, leave it and try to originate good and pure content.
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  • Profile picture of the author zaidi1814
    i think used best tool checking the content, if content is unique and original

    Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software

    PlagSpotter - Online Duplicate Content Checker Tool

    Siteliner - Find Duplicate Content on your site
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