CcTLD and duplicate content
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Hello people, I would like some help with this question...
I am building 2 websites www.domain.com.ec and www.domain.com , both on the same languages, and same content, but the domain.com.ec will show a different price for local ecommerce and focus to target Ecuador... the www.domain.com will sell on all the other spanish languages countries with a fob price...
So my question ... is there any way to fail into the duplicate content on the google eyes?
What could be the best way to do it?
Using the multistore option, with different cctld could change anything?
Thank you guys
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Now I got it... Thank you guys for your time and help ...
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Ecuador, as Mexico, offer both .ec and .com.ec (also Spain does it).
So you can choose one of the two. What's sure is that both will be geotargeting Ecuador.
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the .ec stands for ecuador. You can also register that. But .com.ec is also a possibility but it just uses 2 steps (.com) for international and .ec for geotargeting. Maybe using mysitename.ec works better for geotargeting.
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Thankyou so much by the help, but there was something that I did not undersntand so well... mysitename.com.ec is not a ecuadorian domain name when the .com.ec appears on website address?
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If you use the hreflang, specifing that the first site URLs are meant to be shown in Google.com.ec and all the others to every other spanish speaking Googles, you should not have problem for the duplicated content (which, actually it is not, having the prices in different currencies). The hreflang has been adopted by Google explicitly for those kind of situations (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077).
Said that, it may exists still a tiny risk that both domain will be shown in google.com.ec, because you are targeting with it all the spanish Googles (included Ecuador, theorically)... but that should be really a sort of hiccup of the hreflang use.
By the way, why aren't you using an ecuadorian domain name for the first site? That would give it more strength in term of geotargeting.
Ciao
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