Duplicate content within same site

[chamara.kasun]

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[EricaMcGillivray]

This will still get you hit with a duplicate content penalty. Each page needs to have unique content on it, if you are trying to target different locations.

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Chamara,

As Erica has explained, the practice you are seeing your competitors engaging in is putting them at risk for penalization. Definitely don't copy this bad strategy.

This Moz Blog post should help you start creating a smart, authentic strategy for developing content for your different cities:

http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide

Hope this helps!

[chamara.kasun]

Thank you so much for your awesome feedback

[chamara.kasun]

Thank you so much for your quick respond!