How to SEO a website that is being help back by duplicate content?

[Feily]

We have over 20 websites that sell property. Each website is targeted to a different country. People advertise to sell their property. The websites are not getting to page 1 for the terms we want probably because of duplication issues. If we compare one website with another country website on www.duplicatecontent.net we find it is nearly 70% between one and the other. So we trying to understand why this is. If someone wanted to sell a property in Spain we would create an advert for them but rather than putting this on the back-end of the Spain website it goes on a separate website that does on all countries. We have tried to put nofollow tags so that the country specific website gets acknowledgement of being the original website but the rankings for key-terms will not rise and the duplication % remains nearly 70%. Can anyone suggest the best way forward?

[Francisco_Meza]

I'm a little confused about what you are trying to accomplish, but I'll give it a shot.

If you have a website that you want to ONLY rank in Spain, go to GWT > sit configuration > settings > Geographic target > Spain. "IF" you do this, nothing on this site will show anywhere else except in http://www.google.es/. "IF" you are trying to sell property in Spain to an American, then don't do this because you're listings will never come out in Google.com.

If you are having a duplicate content problem, then rel=canonical it using a plugin in your CMS. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/

[Feily]

Sorry for being unclear. We are only interested in gaining people from UK and Ireland to sell their property in for example Spain and we have the geographical targeting set up already. This is not the issue. The issue is that the Spain website is coming out with a 70% duplicate content with the Turkey website. So the advert for Property Turkey is being put on backend of propertyanywhere.com and then made live on this website as well as the Property Turkey website as well as a Russian and Chinese website. Our tech team have put a nofollow on the "Property Anywhere" website as well as the Russian and Chinese website so that the Turkey Property website is considered to be the original content and help its naturally listings. However, the naturally listings wont go up and Turkey website is still coming up as 70% dupicate content of for example the Spain website. Very messy I know which is our problem

[jim_cetin]

How about creating RSS feeds on the Turkey site and adding them to all other sites on your farm (Russia etc.).

This would give you more links and the content would exist only once as the RSS usually refers back to the original link.

Regards,

Jim Cetin

[Francisco_Meza]

You are mixing up terminology.

<noindex>- applies to the entire webpage or website.</noindex>

<nofollow>- applies to links</nofollow>