Multiple sites with partially similar content

[Rajiv]

Hello ! I have few multiple sites that sell Educational Courses across the world. Each site targets the specific geography/country and hence the sites are registered as:
countryA.com
countryB.com
countryC.com and so on.
Each site has its unique home page content to match the taste and preferences of that specific country. Apart from these contry specific domains, I also have a main corporate site www.main.com, which again has unique content.

Now the problem is that the pages like 'About Us', 'Course Details' etc., remain the same throughout these country domains. Rather than duplicating the same content for 'About Us' across these domains, can I provide a link from www.countryA.com to www.main.com/aboutus/ .. and so on for all other domains?

Is there a better way of doing this?
Thank you very much !
Regards,
Rajiv

[tedster]

I don't see a problem with the link - or with duplicating a small amount of content, for that matter.

[Rajiv]

Thank you tedster... However, there may be approximately 10 such pages that remain same throughout these sites. Please let me know if linking them to the main site from these individual country sites would not trigger any spam?

Also, I wish to capture the applicant data through form submission and store it in a database (MySQL) for further usage (CRM). Can I point all such forms to the main corporate site (www.main.com/contact/)?

Thank you very much !
Regards,
Rajiv

[tedster]

There really isn't much reason to have many of those pages in the index anyway - you could always duplicate them across all the domains, but use noindex or a robots.txt disallow rule on every domain but the main one. Then you've eliminated risk, which I'd say is very small anyway.

[Rajiv]

Thank you very much tedster !

I'll go ahead and follow your instructions.

Regards,
Rajiv