Assume you have several foreign sites with
ccTLDs such as.com for the United States, .fr for France, .de for Germany, and so
on. However, you have not translated any of those sites into their native
language, and some or all of those pages use the same English as the.com
edition. That is not duplicate content, according to Google.
FYI, please read the tweets below. I apologise
if my title caused any confusion; some titles are extremely difficult to
compose.
This is a long-standing SEO query that was
answered even during Matt Cutts' tenure. This is from 2011 when Matt said that
this is not a problem for Google.
But, fast forward to 2021, and see how
Google's John Mueller responded on Twitter. He explained that while there is no
duplicate content penalty for anything like that, focusing the site's
importance on fewer pages makes it easier for certain pages to be more
accessible."
If I were you, I'd hire a translator and
introduce hreflang, but if you're not, don't stress about it tomorrow; instead,
devise a strategy that works for your business.
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