: Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content Issue: Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like : mysite.com/sale-united-states

@Cofer257

The best solution would be to just have one single URL without the country in it, and allow the user to change it. For example the URL could be mysite.com/sale.

You could first auto-detect the country using geolocation, storing that as a "preference" in a cookie. Provide a dropdown for USA/UK/Sweden that sets the cookie to the different country. Then on each page load check for the cookie and display the correct localizations.

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@Si4351233

One way to resolve the duplicate content issue would be to place the duplicate content on a single, seperate page and then embed this in an iframe on each of the country specific pages; google registers content in an iframe as a separate window and as it is only physically located on one page it won't register as duplicate contnet.

I would suggest reading this artical about Duplicate content

It explains that if duplicate content is detected google will likely choose only one of these pages to display and therefore there still wouldn't be versions of your different web pages indexed. Since Google's Panda update it is also probable that your website may be penalised in the listings.

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