How to solve duplicate content issue???
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I have 5 websites with different domain names, every website have same content, same pages, same website design.
Kindly let me know how to solve this issue.
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You have 5 identical sites but you want to solve the duplicate problem? Then change each site and their content?
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I'd be interested to know your reasons for having five sites with the same content. If it's a case of trying to target each of the sites regionally then it may be worth considering implementation of hreflang in which you are able to specify to Google which version of each page is intended for a specific location. Alternatively, you may wish to make use of canonical tags to identify your primary pages to search engines and prevent the duplication headache. Clearly more info here would help us give you the assistance you are after.
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What's the reason why you have 5 identical sites? Is the strategy of having 5 sites helping to achieve your on-line/business goals?
How are these sites performing?
As well as creating a duplicate content problem, you'll also be splitting any inbound links across these five sites.
You may be better off with just the one site and 301 redirect any inbound links to the other sites to your "main" site. That way you can consolidate any links onto one site. Assuming you've got some good links to some of these other sites it may increase the authority of whatever site you chose to be your "main" site and improve its visibility in search.
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Hey Varun,
As far as
- Web Design
- Web Pages
are concerned, no real issues.
- Same content. This is absolute disaster. You need to rewrite content for websites. Make it unique for each one. You can use this: copyscape.com. Learn more about it: http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
- Use different Meta Tags for each website as well
I hope, this helps!
Regards
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