Jordan
09-09-2004, 05:28 PM
Hello,
I have one primary web site, which is a .com. I also have several
international versions of this site (.fr, .it, .de, etc.), in which a
small percentage (<5%) of the pages are translated to a local language,
but 95% of the content is the same as the .com site. Recently, I am
seeing that some of the international sites are showing up before the
.com site in google.com listings for specific keyword searches. How
does Google rank one page over another, if the content is the same but the domains are different (ex. abc.com vs. abc.it with the same content).
Also, by having so many versions of the site (with some language
translation on the international sites, but 95% of the content is
exactly the same), am I risking being penalized? My intent here is not
to spam search engines, but I can understand how a non-human bot may
perceive this differently. Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
I have one primary web site, which is a .com. I also have several
international versions of this site (.fr, .it, .de, etc.), in which a
small percentage (<5%) of the pages are translated to a local language,
but 95% of the content is the same as the .com site. Recently, I am
seeing that some of the international sites are showing up before the
.com site in google.com listings for specific keyword searches. How
does Google rank one page over another, if the content is the same but the domains are different (ex. abc.com vs. abc.it with the same content).
Also, by having so many versions of the site (with some language
translation on the international sites, but 95% of the content is
exactly the same), am I risking being penalized? My intent here is not
to spam search engines, but I can understand how a non-human bot may
perceive this differently. Thanks for any assistance you can provide.