Duplicate content across different domains in different countries?

[wickstar]

Hi Guys,

We have a 4 sites

One in NZ, UK, Canada and Australia.

All geo-targeting their respective countries in Google Search Console.

The sites are identical. We recently added the same content to all 4 sites.

Will this cause duplicate content issues or any issues even though they are in different countries and geo-targeting is set?

Cheers.

[davebuts]

Hi Wickstar,

In addition to geo-targeting in Search Console, do you also have hreflang tags on all sites?

If not, you should definitely add these (more about hreflang here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag).

Aleyda Solis created this great hreflang Tags Generator Tool that can make implementing hreflang very easy - especially with the new XML sitemap export option.

Cheers,

David

[JackSaville]

Can you personalise the content to each location? For example list UK customer case studies on the UK site. This will provide a more personalised experience for the user, and may also reduce the risk duplicate content.

If the identical content does not need to be personalised (like the terms and conditions page for example), then you could just rel=canonical the identical pages 1 one page.

thanks