Avoiding duplication in TLDs

[geekwik]

I have started a ecom site with following config

global version    geekwik.com     priced in usd

india version   geekwik.in     priced in inr

mostly the content in both sites is same (90% same), major difference is currency (and payment gateway) and helpline numbers etc

How do I setup robots.txt and google webmaster so that indian users get results from India TLD and global users get results from global TLD and there is no duplication of content.

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[gfiorelli1]

Hi Alankar,

yours is the classic case when the implementation of the annotation rel="alternate" hreflang="x-X" is strongly suggested.

It serves the purpose of saying to Google what URL to show to the users depending on the language and/or location they performing the search from.

In your case, for instance for the home pages of your sites, it should be implemented so:

• <rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.geekwik.com"></rel="alternate">
• <rel="alternate hreflang="en-IN" href="http://www.geekwik.in"></rel="alternate>

I suggest you to check out these official resources about this topic:

• What's Hreflang?
• More details about Hreflang
• How to implement Hreflang in Sitemaps.xml

You will surely find useful also this page:

• Official Google FAQ about International SEO