Hi, I own a domain , say domain.co.uk. Its hosted in UK I also own domain.com.au and will also host this in UK ( but want it to rank in Austrailia ) Whats best for targetting Aus? I currently have a 301 redirect on the com.au to co.uk. My question is : Is it better to have 301 redirect ( because content same ) or have the com.au hosted on its own with same content ( i dont want to run risk of dupe content). I would prefer not to have redirect and keep visitors on domain.com.au without redirecting - How do I achieve this? Any ideas would be great!
I think its better to change the domain and host it in Au to make it easy for you to rank in google au.
Hi , sorry i should have said. I want to keep targetting UK visitors with co.uk so I need to target Austrailian users using com.au .... I want someone to visit domain.com.au and stay there instead of redirecting with 301 but dont want duplicate with Google.... I was thinking of Geo IP redirect from one to another depending on location?
Just wondering can canonical urls solve your issue. Not sure though. Geo targeting is fine but redirects for every page may not be a valid idea with google
Hi Krish , do you mean au.domain.com ? uk.domain.com? You see at present domain.com.au redirects 301 to domain.co.uk... But I do want visitors to stay on each site individually without annoying Google
NO one can exactly tell that what google detecting in your site.. so its better if you choose safe site online ie white hat only
i have website and i want to deny my website from UK based user or UK country? How can i do this? Is .htaccess is a solution to this?
Hi Mak - you should open your own Thread - but you can use GEO IP to restrict UK users.. some free GEO IP services out there..
anything would be fine .com.au or .co.uk. Its your choice. Keep your preferred one. You can keep visitors on both the sites, but the thing is you shouldn't confuse search engines or let do the things which is considered by them as black hat. Will try to comment more, need to digg few articles before suggesting the best. Stay connected !
No problem , I do appreciate the feedback. co.uk would be primary one. But I know from experience that If i want to target Austrailian visitors - Im best to have my com.au "alive". Im just not sure if 301 redirect will achieve what I need..
Hi , i have that exact scenario at the moment.. But when someone from AU hits domain.com.au - it redirects to domain.co.uk I would prefer if they could stay at com.au domain...
I just had a thought - Would a CNAME alias redirect be ok? So then domain.co.uk/index.php and domain.com.au/index.php would be same and appear to user without redirect.. I know in this scenario , I run the risk of dupe content...!?!