For a multi-country website, subdomains or tlds?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by ComDriver, Apr 26, 2008.

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    I'm currently working on a site for a company. The company wants to deal in Ireland and Great Britain and they have the .com, .ie, and .uk of their name. Would it be better from a marketing and SEO perspective to use subdomains (e.g. ie.company.com) or individual domains for each country (e.g. company.ie and company.co.uk)?
     
    ComDriver, Apr 26, 2008 IP
  2. GameOver

    GameOver Well-Known Member

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    I would use company.ie and company.co.uk instead of a .com because they appear in google.co.uk and google.ie
     
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  3. ORZ

    ORZ Well-Known Member

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    Subdomains are treated as a separate websites, so I'd go with tlds just for more solid look :)

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    To clear this up here is a good video release by google a few days ago
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=r9r3PayqaZM :)
     
    ORZ, Apr 26, 2008 IP
  4. VantagePoint

    VantagePoint Peon

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    go for the tlds to get some automatic geo-targeting and therefore improve your results
     
    VantagePoint, Apr 28, 2008 IP