Duplicat content affecting SEO Rankings
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We have one main site called buypropertyanywhere, it is a database it holds all the data for all our property websites. One of our most popular sites is housesalesbulgaria, which takes the data from buypropertyanywhere in regards to bulgarian property and display it. The same with housesalesturkey it takes the data in regards to turkish property and display it.
We think because buypropertyanywhere and housesalesbulgaria has the same data it has high duplicate content . We think this is affecting the SEO rankings for housesalesbulgaria. Google is looking at housesalesbulgaria as if a copy of buypropertyanywhere.
So therefore should we SEO buypropertyanywhere soley and link it to housesalesbulgaria through the articles and content we put on the site.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Hi there
There are a few ways to do this, and it would depend on your goals. Obviously you don't want two different domains with the exact same content so here are some options to consider :
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Apply correct use of cannonical tags so that search engines know which is the original source, and then put your link building efforts into the original
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Create and add unique content around the Bulgaria sites property content and apply Bulgaria specific on-page optimisation to them. The only problem with this approach is that if these properties also feature on the main(buypropertyanywhere) site that you'd be competing against yourself.
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Redirect the bulgaria site to your main site and make sure that your site architecture is good and has bulgaria as it's own 'section'. Put all your seo efforts into just your main site.
You've not given exact URL's which is fine - but if you were looking to rank the Bulgaria site on Bulgarian search engines and specifically for local searches there then the redirect option might be excluded from the above.
Hope that made some sense
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