Identical content on two different countries

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Michael Martinez: Google says don`t do this if you`re just changing currencies. However, they do allow multiple sites for multiple countries if there are other distinctions that are critical to local business. In general, people DO overthink "duplicate content" (there was never a penalty for having duplicate content - they just pick one version and go with that, but you might acquire links for the wrong version). https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en
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  Kath Dawson: Thanks Michael, there is no currency issue, it’s just B2B lead gen. question is, with the same content in 2 countries in two domains, can they both rank locally? They offer a national service. I completely agree about the link issue!
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  Wissam Dandan: use Hreflang+geotargeting
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  Kath Dawson: That would have been they recommendation at the beginning of the project, they are at the end so I’m looking for the best solution given time and resources.
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  Wissam Dandan: Kath Dawson Courtney use the hreflang in the sitemap if you want
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  Mal Ö Tonge: Wissam Dandan spot on! Hreflang is the way forward without rewriting the who website. Remember Kath Dawson Courtney the Hreflang is only a signal to google, it does not mean google will take notice. here is a great tool to generate hreflang tags https://www.aleydasolis.com/.../hreflang-tags-generator/also here is a post at Moz that explains Hreflang tags in detail.https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tagHope this helps
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  Kath Dawson: Thanks, I`ll check that out