: SEO for duplicate sites with multiple domain extensions I am running business in different nations and I got domains for example www.mydomain.com www.mydomain.us www.mydomain.ca www.mydomain.uk www.mydomain.com.au

@Tiffany637

If you are correctly using rel="alternate" hreflang= meta tags or sitemaps, then it shouldn't matter if you have mostly similar content. One of Google's examples is just like your question:


Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but
the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have
English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and
Ireland.


More info here: Googles' rel="alternate" hreflang="x guidelines

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@Deb1703797

Google didn't consider it as spam. below is the official google video with the answer.

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@Kaufman445

Running a website with duplicate content is going to have negative consequences, regardless of the domain's TLD. Your websites would perform better if you served unique content on each of them.

There may be an advantage to only allowing the indexing of the relevant TLD in the country search engine however (i.e .com.au in Google Australia) - I'd have to test that to be certain if this would be a workaround to duplicate content though.

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@Sent6035632

In my experience, Google does not consider those as spam.

However, it is likely that one of the domains will have a much higher ranking than the others (i.e. one may have a PR of 6, when the others have a PR of 2).

It may be difficult to get the PR 2 pages higher. But I did not have that goal on my end in that situation...

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