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Google: Sites That Are Internationalized Even English Content Is Same Are Not Duplicates.

  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...