Duplicate content or not ?

[android_lyon]

Hello,

I would like your expert opinion

I have a site in spanish for Spain and Mexico

As domain name, I have .es and .mx

This is the same site. We do not have any redirects. From .mx to .es for example.

>> your opinion?
if I declare targeting in Spain in Google Webmaster tools (in settings) and in another profile with in Mexico, we have a duplicate content?

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry for my english, i'm french

[ilovebodykits]

Are the text content the same on these 2 sites? If so, then you will have problem with duplicate content.

[android_lyon]

This is the same text ; but with Google Webmaster tools, can i avoid duplicate content ?

.es >> for Spain

.mx >> for Mexico

[smarties954]

the .mx and .es will be treated as 2 separate websites, so as far as google is concerned you can use each site to target a specific country.

I am not 100% sure, but if both sites are exactly the same, I think one of the two might be discounted because of the duplicate content.

French Version:

le site .mx and .es sont considere comme 2 differents site pour google. Tu peux utilise un profile pour chaque pays.

Je suis pas 100% certain, mais si les deux sites sont identique, il y a beaucoups de chances que google penalise l'un des deux a cause du duplicata et manque d'originalite.

[android_lyon]

Merci pour la version française

[danatanseo]

Bonjour Denis,

Ca va? D'accord, je desirerai d'assistez vouz. Je pense que c'est une probleme commun. Je regrette mon francais!

Okay, now in English if you please.

THe path you are on is going to lead to duplicate content and there's no way around it that I know. I would suggest building one fabulous site in your primary language and let people translate it themselves via Google Translate. I'm not sure if that's a ridiculously simplistic view or not. But it's what I would do for my own sites and suggest to clients.

A bientot!

Dana

[android_lyon]

Merci pour la réponse.

[smarties954]

I don't think you can...

Your case is valid in a way, since you only intend to deliver each content to specific countries and after all it should not matter if both sites are the same since users from spain should not go on the .mx and vice versa.

However google is not human and might not see it the same way.

I would not take a chance on this and make both sites kind of unique.

You may for example allow people to comment on your pages, this will create a "uniqeiness" since comments from spain should be different from Mexico.

Even very large websites like walmart, staples, etc... are slightly different from country to country.

[gfiorelli1]

Nope... never use google translate... it may lead to horrible results also from an SEO point of view.

[gfiorelli1]

Ciao

Your situation is quite "simple" to solve.

The .es and .mx site are automatically targeting their corresponding countries (Spain and Mexico).

In order to make sure Google that you know that the content of both is identical, but that you wanted to "duplicate" it because of some localization reasons (i.e.: currency), then you should implement the hreflang mark up, as it is explained here by Google itself:

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

[gfiorelli1]

Even if you are substantially right, sometimes that is impossible (imagine an eCommerce with 100K+ products.

The differences will be minimal (currency for instance, being pesos in MX and Euro in ES).

That's why it exists the rel="alternate" hreflang (see my answer below for more).