How to do SEO for different countries- .au, .uk, .in

[expertvillagemedia]

Hi

I have a website which we targetted in australia and ranked it on top. Now we are launching another version of website in UK so we  uploaded same site with same content in same language to .uk domain.

1- Will google consider it as a duplicate content as sites are same only domain is different

2- How to do onpage for such site?

Thanks

[smokin_ace]

Hi there,

1. For sure Google will count it as duplicated content and in my opinion it is even worst than having duplicated content on the same domain. I will suggest you to remove content from 2nd domain as soon as possible otherwise it might make a negative impact on your 1st domain rankings.

2. Better hire a copywriter and make a content rewrite, this will help you to avoid negative impact.

Cheers,

Russel

[Keszi]

Hey,

I quote from: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ro/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

"Dealing with duplicate content on global websites

Websites that provide content for different regions and in different languages sometimes create content that is the same or similar but available on different URLs. This is generally not a problem as long as the content is for different users in different countries. While we strongly recommend that you provide unique content for each different group of users, we understand that this may not always be possible for all pages and variations from the start. There is generally no need to "hide" the duplicates by disallowing crawling in a robots.txt file or by using a "noindex" robots meta tag. However, if you're providing the same content to the same users on different URLs (for instance, if both "example.de/" and "example.com/de/" show German language content for users in Germany), it would make sense to choose a preferred version and to redirect (or use the"rel=canonical" link element) appropriately."

I hope that helped.

Istvan

P.S. Still I will have to agree with Russel on his 2nd, if you want to build up from the start a better optimized website, you should probably offer different content on the websites.

Also think about the cultural differences which people use in English in Australia and UK, the text will need to be localized also to have a proper "reading level" for their visitors.

[expertvillagemedia]

Hi

Is there any way that we can avoid rewriting content for  whole site? Do you mean that all websites that have 1000+ pages writes content again if they have sites in .com.au and .co.uk? Isnt it a big big work?

AMit

[expertvillagemedia]

Hi

Is there any way that we can avoid rewriting content for  whole site? Do you mean that all websites that have 1000+ pages writes content again if they have sites in .com.au and .co.uk? Isnt it a big big work?

AMit