SEO & Magento Multistore - I have been asked if "duplicatiing" a magento stor using its "Multistore" functionality will cause both to be picked up as duplicate content, can anybody help?
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Hello all.
I have been asked what the consequences of using Magento's "multistore" functionality are if we were to duplicate our entire magento store and place it on a secondary domain...
The simple answer which comes to my mind is that it will be a flagged as duplicate content.
However, is this still the case if the site were placed in a different country? The original being the UK the copy being Ireland (both English speaking)
How would Google.co.uk & Google.ie treat these stores?
Hope this is clear... our site is http://www.tower-health.co.uk
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Hi Andy,
Are you going to use canonical tag in Google.ie website ? ( I am not sure about of working of canonical tag on other domain ). Are these sites are location based means UK website only opens in UK and Ireland website opens in Ireland only.
Problems:
1. If they are totally same Google might index only one website and ignore the other.
2. You will face ranking issue on Ireland website.
So summary is, Can't you make Ireland website unique ??
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