I have on site translated into several languages on different TLDs, .com, .de, .co.uk, .no, etc. Is this duplicate content?

[hurtigruten]

Three of the sites are English (.co.uk, .com, .us) as well as foreign (.de, .no, etc.) - are these all seen as having duplicate content  on every site? They're hosted under the same EpiServer backend system if this helps. But I am still copying and pasting content over each site, and translating where necessary, so I'm concerned this is indexed as being large amounts of duplicate content.

Site traffic doesn't appear to be suffering but as I'm currently putting together new SEOs strategies, I want to cover this possibility.

Any advice on ensuring the sites aren't penalised appreciated!

[SanketPatel]

Hi,

When the languages are different among two websites , it is not considered as duplication. Google does not consider multilingual website as duplicate content , but If you want to index multilingual website then you have to set target country for each domain, Please read this link for getting solution of your question this link will definitely help you to solve your problem.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192

[hurtigruten]

Thanks, this is quite helpful. Some of the technical aspects of this are a little beyond my knowledge so any laymen's terms explanation appreciated! However, those articles should help me ask the right questions of our developers to make sure we're doing every correctly.