That is a good idea. I too would like to know more about this...so I will watch this post to see what help you get. Dont know about penalty but let's see what advise you get. I learn new stuff on here all the time. Good Luck with your marketing.

I just found this by searching for the question in google search engine. Hope this helps: This post is credited to Monica Savoca from her SEO Blog,


Question: Does Google Penalize Duplicate Content?
Answer: The quick response would have to be “yes!” Avoid duplicate content and use unique content on your website.
The other day I noticed a website that had duplicated another website trying to promote the other site by “helping” them. But in reality, using an iframe to do this will only cause Google to penalize this duplicate content and lower the rankings for this other site. That’s unfortunate because the person was intending to help the original site owner.
Today’s article is to help a website owner understand the importance of adding unique content to their site. This means when you see an article you like, you do not copy it and put it on your website. (This would be called duplicate content!) Google would view the second website with the same material as plagiarism and could possibly lower website ranking or eventually might kick out the second site from search results.
So, how do you avoid adding duplicate content to your site? Sometimes I write original articles from my own experiences. If I see an article I really enjoyed reading, I might write my own original piece of content based from what I just read.
Focus on adding new, unique content to your website. Write about the field your website is centered on and always use some good keywords to help optimize each of your web pages. Google will like you and come back and visit often!

One more Idea: This just came to me. What if you create a tracking code for each city by adding .com/?!City to the end of your page using a tracking link and forwarding the marketing campaigns to that specific page and make it unique to that city by spinning content and adding unique city information in your page/post/article? Not sure if that will work... Let's see what others say. Hope this gives you some ideas.

Anybody else have any ideas on this?

It really depends on your competition. Obviously if the competition is using unique content along with a good SEO strategy, then you would also want that.

There is no problem with starting duplicate and one day moving to unique either if you wanted to gauge it.

Lol. This is actually the original definition of "duplicate content" that Google told people to not do or to avoid whenever possible.

All other definitions of duplicate content (eg "identical content hosted on two separate websites") were made up by internet marketers who mis-interpreted Google's message.

For more information straight from Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSoX...embedded#t=873

Things have changed since that 2009 video...

Duplicate Content in a Post-Panda World | SEOmoz

http://www.marketingwords.com/blog/?p=769

I don't think google would penalize you but you may have a hard time ranking in the search engines. Although it is unique. Give it a try.

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tried it, and it backfired, then I thought, ok, I am a smart ass, I will make each city a subdomain eg, [no url] , well that didn't work. I tried almost 100 pages of almost the same crap with different names, after 10 months, I scraped and decided to renew the domain in 2 months time, after the next 3 months I re did them, passing copyscape, and G loved it. (Do note, when I ran pages through copy scape 6 months later, some of them failed vrs some pages, I presume at the point of text, they were not indexed by copyScape yet)

I am no guru, I really don't know your answer, just my experience. Why don't you ask Matt Cutts and report back?

Duplicate content is create the bad reputation for any Website.A fresh and unique content always gives you all benefits of online business.If you post same content on your website it's not good for your website's future.

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Database driven sites where you create tons (like more than 100) of pages with the same template regularly get deindexed by Google. You'll have to really differentiate the content and have a decent amount of original content on each page. Just generating pages with small bits of data won't cut it.

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Before you get index by major search engines such as Google and Bing, you should add canonical url to your all web pages which should be link to your original content page, otherwise you will be penalized by search engines.

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Don`t worry, Add rel=canonical in your main page`s meta.
for more information about rel=canonical visit the google blog

You may want to just revamp your site and get it right now so you do get hit by Google later. With the way Google is taking down duplicate content, I dont think you want to go that route even if it is on your websites I wouldnt. IMO You would be safer and get more real traffic if you use unique and fresh content that uses SEO.

Well, this is indeed duplicate content within the website.

As such, Google does not penalize websites for duplicate content. It simply does not rank duplicate content in search results.

Also, this practice won't be liked by search engines...
I would advise you create category page on your home page, routing people to their respective country. Optimize your home page for good ranking so that it appears for query from any of your targeted country.

I know a guy who owns a moving company and did exactly what you're saying. He made a different page for each city they service but the content on each page was the exact same, except for the title.

He was hit by Panda and never recovered.

You can't just replicate a bunch of different pages and just change a few keywords in the title and expect to get rewarded for it. I wouldn't suggest it.

I would like to suggest you one think. if you are trying to promote your website globally then make your home page or main page index and mark all other inner pages as you mention above nofollow and noindex for search engine. If you make them index then the search engine ranking will impact instantly because of duplicate content. So make your pages search engine friendly. You can put one drop down menu for selecting country. There is one more option for redirecting the website automatically as per the country.

You don't have any choice. This won't help you for your SEO (because of the duplicate content!), but it won't either hurt your website!

No. As you explained is not good. Google may pennalize you or you will not get benefit very much. Google treats same contents on different pages of the same site as duplicate contents.

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dear there should be different, its necessary else it may be harm your site pages..

It should be easy to add specific information about those sites, and i wouldn't say you have no other option but to use duplicate content on those pages. This from Google's duplicate content guidlines probably applies here:

"Minimize similar content: If you have many pages that are similar, consider expanding each page or consolidating the pages into one. For instance, if you have a travel site with separate pages for two cities, but the same information on both pages, you could either merge the pages into one page about both cities or you could expand each page to contain unique content about each city."

If the webpages I am interested pass copyscape test am I safe?

Because they do pass it.

In my eyes however some stuff seems to repeat, but hey I am the guy that wrote them and I know what I took from my other reviews and what I thought out so it seems like duplicate to me.