Multiple brands issue

[aliciaporrata1009]

My client has his main brand on the domain name .com and then 3 brands that exist on .com/brandA , com/brandB and .com/brandC

We created a lot of content for .com main brand and we noticed that brandB copied some of our content and put it on .com/brandB . How to deal with this? Canonical tags?

[EGOL]

Establish rules for the people who are allowed to publish on this website.   If the content that they copied was created by you and is eligible for copyright then notify them that they are breaking the law.  In your terms of service state that infringing content will be removed.

[KristinaKledzik]

Hi Alicja,

When you say "some of your content," how much do you mean? If brandB copied a paragraph or a few sentences and used it as an intro to a unique piece of content, you should be fine. Google understands that there's naturally going to be some overlap on the same domain.

If they copied an entire page, yes, I would recommend using canonical tags, or removing the content. I assume that brandB understands that a canonical tag will mean their version of the page probably won't rank on Google?

Best,

Kristina