Re: Duplicate Content on my sites unavoidable... options?

It's difficult to follow exactly what your trying to say, but let me tell you about my little buddy GoogleBot.... Having a site  with American section and a British section is very well fine. GoogleBot can see its different but very similar in was and a lot if information is the same and that's ok ..... But you must not have 2 sites running both American and British 

As long as you do all you can guys and gals to follow googles guidelines and real efforts for the visitors experience in the site... GoogleBot won't send a message to Penalize your site if it sees your doing your best but making unaware mistakes... It will penalize you if you try to pull a fast one on my little buddy. 

Let's talk about it some more later. 

Michael Wilson

Content is King

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On Sep 23, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Colin King <colin@educationquizzes.com> wrote:

Hi Michael,

 

We have just been through similar thought processes with our site at www.jigthings.com where we have the same products sold in both the USA and the UK.  We originally had two different sites but for SEO reasons we wanted to bring everything together in one site.  After a good deal of thought and debate   Here is what we eventually concluded...

 

Wherever possible we have made the UK page content as different as possible to its "twin" page in the US.  We have ensured that the titles and meta descriptions are different in each case.   We had about 25 "major" pages in each country each consisting of about 1,000 words so it was not an easy process but one we thought we must undertake.  As far as possible we ensured that the content was aimed specifically at the target country and gave credence to all the differences we knew about the requirements and the buying habits of that country.

 

Where it was not possible to write different content we used canonicals to make sure that only one of the pages was indexed - in our case we wanted the American site indexed because that is the most important to us.  Please note that as far as I am aware it is NOT possible to use canonicals across different sites - they can only be employed within the same domain.

 

Where we have very little content on a page (which doesn't happen very often with our particular site) we again used canonicals but I don't think this is critical because "light content" pages are not likely to accrue much PageRank in any case.  I'm on shaky ground here because it seldom happens that we have light content pages but perhaps someone else in the forum can shed some light on this.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

 

 

 

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