Duplicate homepage content across multiple websites
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Hi,
I work for a company that runs 30+ membership based websites on separate domains and across multiple markets. The homepage for each site contains a section of content that highlights the site benefits and features. While each website serves a different market/niche, this section of content is essentially the same as each website offers the same benefits and features.
What is the best way to avoid duplicate content issues while still being able to show the same section of content across 30+ sites? This particular section of content isn't valuable from an SEO perspective, but the rest of the content on that page is.
Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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In theory, if that content makes sense, you should not worry too much.
But I'd make sure that besides that content, I have some unique content, too on every homepage. You can use various testimonials, attach a blog to each website and pull some feeds, etc.
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