Duplicate Content Issue - Local SEO

plumb_pete

I have a website where we created a unique and informational content and now we want to target same content City wise. So I don't have much to change as just changed the city name for other pages. So will google count it a duplicate content? As it's mine content so should not be the case. And also it's highly relevant on the page so won't impact the page experience and information is highly relevant on the page? Will google count this as a good...

Originally asked by Jaswant Singh on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Just changing every occurrence of a single word won't help you. Google won't penalise you for duplicate content, providing that content was first spidered on your website. But Google will merely consider it canonically identical to another page if it's insufficiently different, regardless of whether you use rel="canonical" tags. That means your "new" pages won't be indexed and won't provide you with any benefit.

Full answer by GeoffAtkins: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/134385 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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