Duplicate content with mine other websites

[JohnHuynh]

Hi, 
I have a primary website www.vietnamvisacorp.com and beside that I also have some secondary websites with have same contents with primary website. This lead to duplicate content errors.

What the best solution for this issue? Please help!

p/s: I am a webmaster of all websites duplicate content

Thank you!

[Gyorgy]

Hi John

If you want all websites to perform well in organic search, then make each of them unique and don't create duplicate content.

If you want only vietnamvisacorp.com perform well, then add cross domain canonical tags to the duplicate pages on your other websites and mark vietnamvisacorp.com as original. Make sure you set page level canonical URLs and not the homepage (www.vietnamvisacorp.com).

[JohnHuynh]

hi Gyorgy,

Thank you for your answer. I think I will use the canonical tags for these contents, but not sure for using canonical tags. For example:

• The primary website has a page content http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/what-is-process-of-requesting-approval-letter-for-vietnam-visa.html and the secondary website has the same page content http://www.vietnametravel.com/visa/what-is-process-of-requesting-approval-letter-for-vietnam-visa-22.html

So, in this case what should I do?

[MoosaHemani]

John probably you have two options available!

The simple Option!

You have two website that have similar content that leads to duplicate content issues. Just write another version of the content and make it live on any one of the website so that this issues becomes resolved and both of your website will be able to rank in search engine from your desired key phrases.

The Ground Reality Solution!

In other case you should use cross domain canonical to tell search engine that you main website have the original version of content. This way Google will not consider that as duplicate content and your content on the main website will still be able to rank in search engines for the desired key phrases.

Hope this helps!

[Gyorgy]

In this case insert the canonical tag in the section of page on vietnamtravel.com:

You can read more about the canonical tag on Google's page: [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en)

[JohnHuynh]

Thanks my friends!

To solve this issuse, I will add canonical tag at website www.vietnametravel.com

[JohnHuynh]

Because of having many URL duplicate contents, so I want to use the robots.txt file to prevent google index the secondary websites to fix the duplicate content issue. Is it ok?

Thanks,