Is the same content posted under different TLDs a problem?

What people said

Recommends TopQnA · 2017-08 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Site for NZ and AU appearing in the US search results over the site for the US”

If you think, plan and implement 2 different sites with unique content and structure then you do not need to worry which one getting indexed first. Let's say you have got: example-au-nz.com example-us.com Now, your business process may be same but its highly recommended that you should have unique content, website structure etc for both websites. On a side note: If your website structure (Design, Navigation etc) may be same (to save cost etc) then you should even be more careful about unique content on the website. Modified: Watch This: [this video] Now, even if there will be same content on different TLDs which may be OK but no one can guarantee the level of duplication Google will detect. My ap

Cites PeggyP · 2013-05 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Pros and cons of language-specific URL's?”

For multilingual website, you need to understand your requirement first. As of now, just forget about search engine and start thinking about your target audience experience. Here are few question you should ask: Is your target persona doesn't understand English? If you add language specific pages, does it help them in decision making? Is your business is physically located in those targeted countries? are you offering services in their currency? Apart from these, there are many question that can help you to take the decision whether you should crate website in different languages or not. Once you plan to have multilingual website, it is absolutely fine if you are having almost same content i

Cites dan · 2013-07 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Is it bad for SEO to forward multiple top level domains to just one domain?”

Correct, here's a related video from Matt Cutts: Is the same content posted under different TLDs a problem? [this video] . Also be sure to use 301 redirects.

Cites muhammad usman · 2013-11 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “What are the search engine affects of registering the same domain on multiple top level domains?”

Here is the Google official video with the answer [this video] . Option no.1 will be easy and cost effective for you and there is nothing to worry about duplicate content issue. But: Change the language manually not machine translation. Change the valid currency if you are selling local contact information & if possible then Register for Google Places for each site Use all localized tags like <META NAME="geo.country" CONTENT="GB"> <meta itemprop="addressCountry" content="United Kingdom"> Point is to prove that your country website belongs to that country and you will see that your country domains will get more targeted traffic than .com with less effort.

Cites zigojacko · 2013-12 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “SEO for duplicate sites with multiple domain extensions”

Providing the TLD's target the intended country and the wording is localised for that country (i.e UK/US spellings) then it is unlikely to cause a problem because Google's algorithm isn't focusing on multi-TLD's for the same business in the same way it is on the similar/duplicate sites on the same TLD. I disagree that there is SEO benefit, it's just unlikely to be considered spam if legitimately targeting... Source: Matt Cutts [this video] . I think you've read more into my answer than I intended and don't agree with the downvoting of it personally.

Cites TopQnA · 2017-08 · Webmasters Stack Exchange · on “Site for NZ and AU appearing in the US search results over the site for the US”

This is quite grey. [this video] TLDs have mentioned. Firstly, there are many businesses which operate in AU and NZ using one website. Sorry, don't agree as without knowing details. Unique content is by far the best and risk-free method.