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"<p dir=\"auto\">Hi,</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I have two sites. One is a new .co.uk site which contains duplicate information to a .ie site.</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Currently, if I do a search for the company name in <a href=\"http://Google.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">Google.co.uk</a> it returns the .ie site. The .co.uk site needs some localisation done and some links (really is brand new).</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I was going to place hreflang tags as follows on both sites:-</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The order would flip for the .co.uk site from the above order.</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">However, just to make things interesting, the .ie site was hit by Penguin and it hasn't recovered yet (and won't recover for another few months while I fix the issues).</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">So the question is, what should I do?  Do I go ahead an let Google know for sure that these sites are linked despite one of them having been penalized? Or do I let Google think that there is a .co.uk site with duplicate content to another .ie site?</p>\n"
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