Seo: Multistore and duplic content

Hi!

I am building multisite system with domains (not subdomain) and I was just wondering how will google (and other search engines) see those other domains when I have same products sold on multiple site.

If I have got it right, google will see this as duplicate content and that is not good for seo. On some seo blog I have read a post that says I could reduce the duplicate content penalty by adding link to products page that shows which is the orginal page of the product.

For example I could add link like (http://mainstore.com/category/subcategory/product) on the bottom of the multisite product description.

Is there anyone who understand seo and could tell me am I right with my thoughts and if I am right how can I build that link to be automatic on product.tpl file? So that the link will always point to the right directory and product.

kind regards

I haven't had any issues with duplicate content - at least not yet. Though I split products among my 30+ stores so that some are unique to 1 store, some shared by 2-3, and rarely on more than 8-10 of my stores.

I do try to write my own descriptions so they are unique to me (or go back and do it when I have more time when I'm trying to add a bunch of products at once as I am right now).

I have experimented with using languages (which I don't otherwise use) to create alternate descriptions, but haven't worked on it a while. Technically, you should be able to make each store use its own "language" (as a clone for English or your main language) and then write unique descriptions for each language so you'd have unique content for every item for every store. It's on my eventual to do list, probably next year.

Has anyone found a solution for this? I have a multi store / multi language solution, but I have a major problem with duplicate content.

http://www.oakhair.dk - In danish
http://www.oakhair.com- In english
http://www.oakhair.se - in swedish

The problem is that google indexes the danish content on the swedish site and vice versa, which creates duplicate content. I would be really thankful if someone has a tip or solution for this.

Thanks :-)

Can I just try to clarify that if I set up multi-store in OC (to keep all my products in one database) and put different ones in different stores, on different domains, I won't really be creating duplicate content?

Thanks

Hi!

Krisp : I think that labeshops post is the ultimate answer for this problem.

Technically, you should be able to make each store use its own "language" (as a clone for English or your main language) and then write unique descriptions for each language so you'd have unique content for every item for every store. It's on my eventual to do list, probably next year.

That just means really much work I don't have that kind of time now.

TAC: If I understand your question right, then you are correct. You won't really be creating duplicate content and search engines find your products only on those sites you have chosen them to be. At least that is my opinion but I am not seo expert.

But to get back to my orginal question, I haven't yet get any solutions done.

And what I was trying to do? I tried to create automatic link to the product page (product.tpl?) on the "secondary" domains that would be pointing to my main domain same category and same product. So only the domain part on the url would change.

Would this make any benefit if thinking seo? Any seo expert there to tell me am I right or not?
I think that it could becouse, product descriptions wouldn't be same anymore and I would also create backlinks to my main site.

kind regards
Venkko

Thank you Venkko, much appreciated

Hello,
Here what I found concerning this issue:
"While creating and managing multi-stores don't forget to ensure that all pages, content, urls, meta descriptions and keywords are different otherwise you will see adverse effect on your store's SEO simply, because Google will detect a single IP with lots of duplicate contents."