Q and A: Would translating my site into another language be considered duplicate content?

Dear Kalena...

I have read an old thread in a forum today:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=7970&highlight=multilingual

I found the information very useful but would like your advice on my current situation. I have a .co.uk domain which does very well for UK, and now I want the .co.jp domain to feature. The co.jp is listed in Google.jp, but hosted in the UK.

If I replicate (obviously translate) the .co.uk site would I run the risk of being penalised? What would you do in my situation?

Appreciate your advice on this one!

Kind Regards

Ashley

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Ashley

If the uk site is translated into Japanese, then my understanding is that the content would not be treated as duplicate as it would contain different characters. It should be indexed by the search engines and ranked appropriately to appear on their regional language versions (e.g. Google.co.jp)

Hope this helps!

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