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How to manage canonical URLs for multiple domains with identical content to avoid SEO penalties?

I am managing a website that has several country-specific domains (e.g., .com, .be, .nl, .fr), but all of these domains load the exact same content. The primary version of the website is the .com ...
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Non-English German Website Indexation Issue On Google

We are having issues in indexing one of our non-english store. Here is the timeline of events: Event 1: Back 2022, we mistakenly made the website in english and english URLs got indexed Event 2: We ...
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Best approach to have 2 domains at the same website ( my case is different ) read it [closed]

I have a problem so I decided to create two domains and redirect some of my users from google search results straight to the second domain by their geo location. The Problem : My problem is that my ...
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42 Character Long Domain Name, Exception?

Without getting too specific, I am a photographer trying to improve my SEO. The other day, I noticed that when I typed my website name into Google, my website doesn’t appear as a search result. I am ...
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Translated text on multiple national level domains

I am a bit confused about multilingual websites and SEO and would be grateful if somebody could explain me how they are ranked at the moment. For example, my company's website domain is "...
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SEO Strategy for 2 websites selling the same product

We currently have 2 websites that are selling the same products (let’s say the same houses in Norway). I am a beginner in SEO and put a lot of effort into optimizing one of them in the last 6 months, ...
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SEO of changing from .co.uk to .com

I'm a graphic designer, with a fairly niche specialism, based in the UK. Originally all my clients were based in the UK, but over recent years I've picked up a few clients from other countries, from ...
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Redirected exact-match domain names for SEO?

Google usually favors domain name exact matches. For example, if your domain is mailonline.com, when you search "mail online", it would recognize the similarity between the two and likely ...
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Same content, different domains, different languages = hreflang?

I have a question. Related topics would be: duplicate content, different languages, maybe hreflang. I'm located in Belgium. Belgium is multi-lingual. I have a company that offers preparation for a ...
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I changed the domain name, will my articles pass as duplicates?

I decided to change my domain name x.com to y.com and moved all the files from x.com to y.com and deleted x.com. All the articles on x.com are now available on y.com. But Google doesn't like duplicate ...
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Best way to configure URL and subdomain

I am configuring a new brand which is a sub-entity of a well established organisation with excellent Google standing. I was thinking to configure the new site as a subdomain, new.old-brand.example, ...
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Temporary domain for new version of a website

I'm redesigning a website. Many parts of the old (current) website are still useable, but some other critical parts (say product page & purchase flow) are broken and the new, redesigned website ...
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What's the best strategy for letting extraneous domains go?

My employer has several dozen domains that were registered by a previous marketing team, who felt they needed to register every possible variant/misspelling they could think of. The vast majority of ...
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Encouraging self-canonical on international websites with legitimate duplicate content

We are selling the same products on several websites having country-specific domain names. The website template is always the same, and the content language normally differs based on country, except ...
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Multiple groups of similar sites under a single Google Analytics account. Better to setup them in property or view?

I run 4 separate business so I use 4 Google Analytics accounts. 300 web-sites in single Google Analytics account In ONE of the business, we plan to roll-out about 300 websites, with about 10 engines, ...
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Are there SEO issues when splitting a subdirectory into its own domain?

We have a very busy website which primary domain is news related. In addition to our website, we have a couple of subprojects, which are not news related, but are hosted on the same domain with ...
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Why do my two sites targeted at the same keywords never appear in the Google search result together?

I have two sites now, and had been doing Google SEO working about 6 months. One site appeared on the 1st page of google search result of target keywords. The other site also appeared for some ...
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Redirect 301 from local TLD to .com or cannonical for multi-domain strategy

Best approach for a multi-domain strategy for ranking purposes I have a domain with a local TLD www.example.cl; and I've been trying to rank for a while with some keywords www.exaple.cl/mykeyword. I ...
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Is there an SEO or pagerank benefit in grouping (rel="alternate") multi-language websites (using multiple domains) together?

I'm building this website that will be multi-region / multi-language. And for that, Google suggests the following: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en Since, my domain will ...
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Two websites, two domains (ccTLD), two markets but same content - SEO Impact?

We have an ecommerce website registered as example.ie (Ireland) with high traffic. We want to expand to the UK (.co.uk). The website content will be identical except a change in pricing (EUR -> GBP) ...
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Are there any negative implications of redirecting a URL on one domain to a URL on a different domain?

For context, my company uses a 3rd party website to house Instructions for Use manuals for the products we manufacture. We use a 3rd party to house these manuals as they are very large and often need ...
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Can I run multiple sites with customized look and feel from a single code base and database?

I want to create a main website say, www.myweb.example which has the main functionality such as admin panels, db's etc. Then I want to offer clients a customised front-end (change of css and logo) ...
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Domain redirect to main domain with language param (301) [duplicate]

The following scenario: I have purchased multiple domains for a project: domain.app domain.com domain.de Originally it was planned to display a landing page on domain.app. On domain.de the german ...
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A domain for each language or a single domain, which is better for SEO?

My project is in 7 languages. For each language, we bought a domain. The project already has some success. Some domains have many visitors from search engines, some not so many. When we launched, ...
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Is a single Internal Link enough to tell search engines that a page is regional specific?

I am working on a multi-national/multi-lingual eCommerce website, with the following website structures: www.example.co.uk (UK Based English speakers) www.example.co.uk/es/ (UK Based Spanish ...
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Is it viable to purchase a ".com" domain while another company in the UK owns the ".co" version? Help!

I'm starting a business and I'm looking into purchasing a domain name for my business but the problem I see is that another company in the UK (United Kingdom) owns the exact name of my business but in ...
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SEO Does my ranking is affected if I put links in the content to another website of my own?

I have a network of ecommerce sites.. All of them sell the same thing but I made one specific for a city. like for NY cars-new-york-1.whatever and have the main one for USA: cars-usa-1.whatever I ...
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German site is not indexed, Search Console says it is duplicate of the English site, even though it is different language content

I have problems to understand why my website isn't ranked correctly. I have 2 domains which open the site in 2 different languages: DE: https://ausgaben-rechner.de/ EN: https://expense-calculator.com/...
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How does it impact SEO to provide multiple custom domains for portions of our main site?

I have an ecommerce i.e www.mainsite.example which has various products from merchants when clicking on merchant profile the URL is like www.mainsite.example/company-name-products. We need now to ...
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2 domains, same content, same region, multilingual

I am soon launching a multilingual site under 2 different domain names, in the same region (country) and would like to know if I am taking the wrong approach and running into a wall. I would also like ...
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How to implement hreflang for a .com with a subdomain and and a .ca domain [closed]

I'm currently working on the SEO for a site that has the following domains: subdomain.example.com example.ca These are both e-stores and I'm wondering how I would go about setting up hreflang in ...
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Is it ok to keep both xyz.in and xyz.com live with different but similar data?

Our startup creates store-locator and microsites for brands in an automated manner using template approach under a new domain. So for one of our client (brand), we made its store locator live for all ...
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Redirect a domain to a sub-page on another domain

(Examples below are illustrative only and not real domains.) Imagine I have turtles.com and the site has been up for some time. Now imagine that I have reptiles.com. Would it be "bad" (for SEO, ...
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Remove https://{site}.tld from Google

I maintain a client's website, and at the beginning he insisted that he wanted two tld extensions on the same website (.gr and .com). I thought it was weird, but not having any idea on what was about ...
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Two websites, two domains, for one brand, SEO issues?

I'm doing SEO for a new real estate company, yet the developer had surprised me with this: The developer had created two websites with two domains for one brand: The first domain/website: ...
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One company two domains for two countries - Google Search

My company has two domains: - www.company.pe (for Peru) - www.company.ar (for Argentina) www.company.com was already taken so i had to buy one domain for each country. These two sites have ...
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Shutdown a subdomain can affect another subdomain

I have two subdomains and I decided to shutdown the br and focus only in pt project. https://pt.example.com https://br.example.com My question is that I have some old posts (archived and not ...
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Two websites for one photography business

I have a new SEO client who has currently split their business across three websites, I advised they should merge into a single site, but they are insisting on retaining 2 sites: 1 x specialist ...
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After website migration a year ago, some URLs from the old domain are still in Google. Should I block the old domain now?

I had an old domain which was migrated to a new domain. However, for a few pages redirects are not working properly and still being indexed in results. The migration was done a year ago. Would it ...
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Site for NZ and AU appearing in the US search results over the site for the US

I have 2 websites, one for Australia and New Zealand, and another for the US and the rest of the world the one for the Australia is indexing 1st when I search it from the US, how can I promote the US ...
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From an SEO perspective, can canonicals be used for typo domain aliases instead of redirects?

I'm setting up a new website with a few domain aliases with variations (singular and plural) of the primary domain. The point is to take the user to the right website even if he types the address ...
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One Company - Two separate Websites (About & Career)

I'd like to learn more about the case of having two domains linked to two (content-wise) completely different websites representing a single company in one location. The existing website contains ...
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What should a sitemap look like when there are two domains for a website?

I have a website which has two domains. The nav looks like this: example.com example.com/page1/ example.com/page1/subpage1/ example.com/page1/subpage2/ example.com/page2/ example.net (which has ...
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Sudden SEO rankings drop for a specific domain of a multinational site [duplicate]

EDIT 19/6: the issue is apparently solving itself Unfortunately I cannot see any indication of what worked. It could be the spammy-looking domain which we disavowed links from, but it can also be a ...
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SEO for a website with 2 domains

I am redesigning a website for a company which is about to become 2 different companies. They are about to have another company which is similar. They only want to maintain SEO for a single website ...
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Localized top level domains - will they get any ranking in Google?

I have a main domain, let's call it example.com which I've had for years and it's doing pretty good in Google search ranking. This domain is set up so it redirects www and http:// to the canonicalized ...
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Internationial SEO with different alias domains

Imagine I'm proprietor of two domains that are alias, i.e., they point exactly to the same server and folder: exemple.com and exemplo.com However, in that server I detect the country of the user, so ...
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Block third domain from being indexed

We have a web application that handles many websites that have test and production environment. This application has only one folder and it's hosted with IIS. We already have noindex nofollow, index ...
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Multiple domains, 'one' server

I'm almost completing an online service where people can link their domain to. Think Squarespace/Wix/Weebly type. Visitors enter customerdomain.com that leads to mywebapp.com but keeps customerdomain....
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Different content for different domain extensions

let's say I have myawesomewebsite.com on which I have a blog website. Then I would like to buy myawesomewebsite.consulting on which I would put a website for my media agency. In few words: those are ...
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