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Hi Tekeshi,

Thanks for your response. I am not expecting Google to show all the sites in the same SERP's results, because they are clearly targerted for different countries or different Google search engines. So I expect the Australian Geo Trageted site to come up google.com.au , and the UK Geographic Targeted site come on the search results of google.co.uk and so on.

Over time, and I am talking about a matter of a couple of months, they will each be having their own unique blog posts and articles, which I am hoping will help them differentiate from each other. Although "the broad subject" matter will still be the same.

So all the sites might be about "Chocolates" , but over time, the Australian site will talk about Australian chocolates, and different things effecting chocolate sales in Australia, and the US site ma be talking about how to make chocolate flavoured ice cream and so on. I am hoping this approach will help me on the long term.

Apologies if I am jumping in, but I just wanted add something to the mix. I also have a very similar situation and I posted this question on this forum earlier today. So I was wondering, does it not matter that each website has geographic targeting for different countries on Google Webmaster? For example, we have a brochure website, and we are selling the same service in multiple countries. It make sense to have country specific domains. And it is very difficult to describe the same product 3 different ways. It just doesn't make sense. However, are you saying that the sites would need to have unique content or different content from each other even though their geographic targets are set to different countries.

By the way my sites are starting small with around 10 pages each.

I am new here, and this is my first question. I was hoping to get help with the following scenario:

I am looking to launch 3 sites in 3 different countries, using 3 different domains. For example the.com for USA, the .co.uk for UK , and a slightly different .com for Australia, as I could not purchase .com.au as I am not a registered business in Australia. I am looking to set the Geographic Target on Google Webmaster. So for example, I have set the .com for USA only, with .co.uk I won't need to set anything, and I will set the other Australian .com to Australia.

Now, initially the 3 site will be "brochure" websites explaining the service that we offer. I fear that at the beginning they will most likely have almost identical content. However, on the long term I am looking to publish unique content for each site, almost on a weekly basis. So over time they would have different content from each other. These are small sites to begin with. So each site in the "brochure" form will have around 10 pages. Over time it will have 100's of pages.

My question or my worry is, will Google look at the fact that I have same content across 3 sites negatively even though they are specifically targeted to different countries? Will it penalise my sites negatively?