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    • SquallPersun
      SquallPersun last edited by

      If I have almost the same contents for my three e-commerce websites, say A.com,B.uk,C.ca. They're promoted in US, GB, Canada which are all English speaking. Will my site be punished because they're almost the same to Google?

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      • JamesNorquay
        JamesNorquay last edited by

        Yeah their is a good chance they will, ideally you need to make different content which is local market.

        I.e use different content on your US and GB website, many people make the mistake where they copy the whole site and then wonder why the US site out ranks the GB site.

        The best case scenario is where you have local content writers making content for each market.

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        • mediabase
          mediabase last edited by

          Hi Squall, As you mentioned that you had three e-commerce websites & all are in same niche i.e English Speaking. So I want to tell you about same thing in link, please refer to this.

          http://www.mikeliebner.com/internet-marketing/duplicate-content-is-an-urban-legend-kinda/

          The link that was mentioned above solves your query & this is not enough. You should know the reason that why Gooogle penalize you & for this please refer to this link.

          http://www.shoutmeloud.com/6-reasons-why-google-will-penalize-you.html

          I hope that all of your queries are solved.

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          • SquallPersun
            SquallPersun @mediabase last edited by

            Hey, Harald

            The articles you provide are very informative, I've learnt a lot.

            Thank you!

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            • SquallPersun
              SquallPersun @JamesNorquay last edited by

              Hi, James

              We'll try to make more local contents to our websites.

              Thank you for your advice!

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