Ecommerce // indexation and duplicate
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Hello moz community,
We have 3 website that are e-commerce based that go as follow :
- 1.0 www.product.com ( french )
- 2.0 www.anotherproduct.ca ( for the canada english )
- 3.0 www.anotherproduct.com ( for the usa market in english again )
Those 3 website are configured inside WPML ( wordpress ) and are build with woocommerce. Most of the pages beetween anotherproduct.ca and anotherproduct.com are identical or close to be. We want to have a good indexation and to absolutely avoid duplicate content. Any help would be appreciated !
CHeers,
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Look into rel="alternate" hreflang="" tag. This can be implemented in the of the duplicate sites or via sitemaps. For more info, read up here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
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