Let me explain it first. Say, I have a site called http://mysite.com. I have purchased domains http://mysite.co.in, http://mysite.co.uk, http://mysite.co.nz, http://mysite.co.za for targeting my site in India, UK, New Zealand and South Africa. I would like to promote my website to different geographic locations or countries say UK, NZ, SA, etc. Method-I ---------- Do I promote my .com domain http://mysite.com for targeting UK, NZ, and SA by http://mysite.com/UK/web-development, http://mysite.com/New-Zealand/web-development..? Or Method-II ---------- http://uk.mysite.com/web-development, http://new-zealand.mysite.com/web-development,..? Or Method-III ---------- http://mysite.co.uk, http://mysite.co.nz , and http://mysite.za for promotion? I am bit confused about applying any of above methods because the problem is with contents. If I promote my site with Method-I or any of above then I have to write unique contents for each sub folder web pages or sub domains. Like for http://mysite.com/UK/web-development and I have to write content that includes keywords searched in UK for web development. Same for other countries. If I go for sub domain or separate .co.uk, .co.nz, or .co.za domains can I use same content that I have used for .com (http://mysite.com) domain? Also Do I need to host each domain to their geo targeted country? http://mysite.co.uk to UK, http://mysite.co.nz to New Zealand web server? Or on the same server (in US) where .com site http://mysite.com is hosted. Another thing is if I target my website for Spain with method-I (http://mysite.com/spain/web-development) then I have to write content in Spanish language. Does my content on http://mysite.com/web-development will work for targeting Spain if I convert my English language pages to Spanish language? I think if I go for http://mysite.com/New-Zealand/ then I can select New Zealand as geo targeted region in GWT. Does that way work for targeting my site to New Zealand? As the keywords are of very high competitions related to web development, web design, ecommerce application development, Microsoft .Net, Java, PHP, etc. Please suggest me which method will work for me and what are the pros and cons of each method? Or any other method you suggest to promoting site to different countries. Waiting for your kind reply. Thank you very much in advance for taking your precious time for my questions.
In my opinion the first method works better, here I copy an article about the subject: Basically Geo targeting is a way to return searches that are area specific. This can include regions, provinces, cities and even countries. Google for instance uses your ISP or Internet Service Provider in order to determine where you are located and then returns results based on that. If you live in Sussex for instance you will get results relevant to Sussex. From a SEO point of view this is good news. Campaigns that rely on Geo targeting tend to be more successful. SEO uses processes and techniques to generate quality traffic from search engine pages. Web traffic has no boundaries so searches starting in London can land on a website advertising their services in Timbuktu. Searches are conducted in different languages too and as such SEO has proved invaluable for driving searches to each and every type of website regardless of layout, navigation or style. Yet Geo targeting takes these results one step further as it can increase the success of businesses that promote products across not only different areas but also across different cultures.