Duplicate site content and setting up country specific domains
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We look after a website which was originally just hosted on mysite.co.uk. We expanded to the European markets creating mysite.de and mysite.fr getting each product and page translated properly into German and French respectively. We have really good success on google.de and google.fr for these sites.
We want to do the same with google.ie and create mysite.ie for the Irish market but as they speak English there will be no translation required. The only thing we will change is the base currency from GBP to EUR.
From a duplication point of view will this be bad for both businesses mysite.co.uk and mysite.ie or will the .ie site be seen as the 'copier' and the .co.uk as the authority? Has anyone got any advice over best practice here and what would be the best thing for us to consider? We absolutely cannot risk the .co.uk site ranking wise.
It's unrealistic for us to rewrite each product description and page so it means the same thing but is worded differently to avoid the duplication issue.
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You will be ok, sites in different tld's are not treated as duplicate content.
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Hi Gavin,
It sounds like you could do this and then make use of HREFLANG. You can read more about it here, but this is a quote from the page:
Your content has small regional variations with** similar content in a single language**. For example, you might have English-language content targeted to the US, GB, and Ireland.
I hope this helps.
-Andy
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