Tuesday, May 28, 2019

I'll be writing a hundred 10,000 word 'complete guide' type articles. One per country. But I'm worried about the inevitable duplicate content.

Context

Hypothetically, let's say that I'm writing a guide about using your USA cell phone when on vacation in a specific country.

> The Complete Guide To Roaming with your cell in *X*.

Where X is the country name. Let's assume Greece for this example.

Purpose of the Guide

The guide's main purpose is to list the roaming charges when in Greece. In addition, there is extra information relevant to using a smartphone in Greece as a visitor from the USA.

It's about 10k words in total, as it's super thorough and covers practically everything somebody would need to know when roaming in Greece - as there's a ton of supplementary information.

Supplementary Information:

The roaming fees are the primary reason the guide exists. It's what most people care about.

But, as this is a complete guide - and a very well-researched skyscraper article - a lot of things that a searcher may not have immediately thought about, but still important things to consider - all relevant to the overall topic of: "roaming in Greece'".

All this is roaming-specific, not country-specific (like the charges)

For each carrier, I explain:

1) How to do voicemail when in a foreign country

2) Customer helpline info (with international dialling code)

3) Relevant roaming terms and conditions that apply. (These vary wildly by network and tariff)

4) How the network charges for call duration (either per second or per minute)

5) The local roaming partner (e.g. the network in the foreign country that has an agreement with your UK carrier)

The problem

The supplementary content makes up about 50% of each guide and will be duplicated for each country.

I could easily end up with 150+ copies of the same paragraphs across the site.

My Thoughts so far

I don't really want to separate this supplementary information into a separate guide of its own... But, could that be better from an SEO point of view?

I was hoping that my strategy of having everything all in one place would prove to the reader that I have done a considerable amount of research into the topic. They may never see it if it's hidden on another non-landing page.

They have their original question answered (the roaming charge within Greece), I provide a simple breakdown of the terms and conditions for their network, and as they trust my authority enough to follow my sales funnel.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

If you made it this far, thanks for taking the time to read!!

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