Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about?
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Hey guys,
We built a website http://www.cylon.com/ targeting different regions but with the same English langauage (Ireland, England and America). The content for the most part is the same set up on 3 different subfolders.
http://www.cylon.com/ - Targeting United States in WMT
http://www.cylon.com/ie - Targeting Ireland in WMT
http://www.cylon.com/uk - Targeting UK in WMT
Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about?
If so, how do I get around this issue?
Also is there anyway of finding out if Google have in some way penalised these pages for having the same content on other pages trageting different Countries? I have not received any messages from Google in WMT saying there is duplicate so I'm not sure if this is an issue.
Thanks
Rob
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The hreflang have to be implemented per page
here is a good resource https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077
if you cant upload it on each page then include it in the sitemaps
a good tool http://www.themediaflow.com/resources/tools/href-lang-tool/
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Thanks for reply,
Client would like all addresses on all versions of the website unfortunately. if I use hreflang as you suggested do I have to insert this separately on every page or is there a way of bulk uploading this to the website.
Thanks
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Hi Hannah,
Thanks for the reply. No this isn't causing us any difficulties at the moment but I had read about using hreflang for multi country set ups like this. If it is something I don't need to do then I won't give myself any unnecessary work.
Thanks
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Hey Rob,
In short, no - this set up shouldn't cause you problems from a duplicate content perspective. The search engines (broadly speaking) understand that content intended for different geographic locations shouldn't be considered duplicate.
Are you having issues in terms of Google ranking the correct content in each location? (I.E. - does your Irish content rank on google.ie?).
If not, you might consider implementing hreflang - see this post by Aleyda for further information.
Thanks
Hannah
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Do you have business location in Uk? Ireland? US?
If yes and let it reflect that when i land on each page, don't mix locations (as i see in /uk and /ie)
what you can utilize also the hreflang where you can set it like that :
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Hi Rob,
Checked your website and figured out. It is a long list but u have a lot of server errors like 5xx, 4xx and some of the url doesnt respond(no respond because of time out). you have also dublicate url, meta descriptions page titles.
If u are not using screaming frog can be very handy to use all info is one place so it would help u a lot to solve mistakes and check afterwards are there still there or not.
Frutiko Team
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