Duplicate content across internation urls

[jazavide]

We have a large site with 1,000+ pages of content to launch in the UK.

Much of this content is already being used on a .nz url which is going to stay.  Do you see this as an issue or do you thin Google will take localised factoring into consideration.

We could add a link from the NZ pages to the UK.  We cant noindex the pages as this is not an option.

Thanks

[ske11]

Hi

Yes this would be a problem, Google will see this as duplication and will be less likely to rank the pages well.

Are the pages from .nz site product descriptions or are they useful content that readers would be interested in?

If you must have the content on the site for users to read you should no index it but do not expect it to rank well.

[jazavide]

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your response.

the urls' are different so i also thought this may be an issue.

But from reading in the webmaster guidlines if the sites are targeting a different international audience google may recognise this and distribute pages accordingly to a local audience rather than penalise.

I think the issue i have is that they are differnt url's and im concerned this maybe seen as duplication.

So xyz.co.nz and abc.co.uk but both using the same content on 1,000+ pages.

Id appreciate all input from anyone that reads or particularly anyone thats faced this scenario.

Thanks
Zak