Cross Domain Duplicate Content

[Tz_Seo]

Hi,

We want create 2 company websites and each to be targeted specific to different countries. The 2 countries are Australia and New Zealand.

We have acquired 2 domains, company.com.au and company.co.nz . We want to do it like this and not use different hreflang on the same version for maximum ranking results in each country (correct?).

Since both websites will be in English, inevitably some page are going to be the same.

Are we facing any danger of duplicate content between the two sites, and if we do is there any solution for that?

Thank you for your help!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

As long as you use proper hreflang and language tags you should be fine. Even though they are both English sites, you should still distinguish these as alternates for different regions.

I would also look into creating separate Webmaster Tools profiles for both sites and country targeting them. Same with Bing Webmaster Tools.

Lastly, take advantage of Whitespark to build citations for each website for their areas/regions of service.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[Tz_Seo]

Hey Patrick,

Thank you very much for your answer, it is very helpful.