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    • joogla
      joogla last edited by

      Good morning

      Just a quick question.  Why does AirBNB not get penalised for duplicate content on its sites.

      For example, the following two urls (and probably more for other countries), both rank appropriately in the google (UK and COM),

      https://www.airbnb.co.uk/help/getting-started/how-to-travel
      https://www.airbnb.com/help/getting-started/how-to-travel

      Their are no canonical tags, no Alternative etc

      If I look at the following

      https://www.airbnb.co.uk/s/London--United-Kingdom
      https://www.airbnb.com/s/London--United-Kingdom

      They both have alternative to point to the other language versions which I would expect. However they also both point to them selves as canonical.  Would this not be duplicate content ?

      Thanks for your insights

      Shane

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      • Highland
        Highland last edited by

        The simple answer is they're using a generic TLD(gTLD) and then a county TLD(ccTLD). Google has long said that it recognizes that the same content on different ccTLDs will not count as duplicate because they understand it's geotargeted

        Ets7nHOV1Yo

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