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Duplicate content on multistore Magento website

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roberthseo last edited by

Hello there,

We run a Magento based e-commerce site in the UK for example: domain.com

We are looking to launch a USA and Australian version of the website:

usa.domain.com and au.domain.com

Obviously the currency will be different and so will some of the content.

Will we be penalised for having duplicate content across these 3 sites? (As some pages will be very similar or the same)

Thanks

Robert
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Alex_Moravek Banned last edited by

As Matt Cutts repeated several times, Google is smart enough to recognize when it comes to a domain, and in this case you will not be penalized. The problem is that the same Google will choose a main content (only one of the three), and the other will not look, that is, you will not be positioned.
The quality work means creating quality content and original. I guess that although the three countries speak the same language the texts should not be the same.
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