Well guys currently i have .au site (nationalvisas.com.au), The site itself is doing good in the major SEs. I would like to enter the Uk market and the Canadian market and may be some others down the track. I have the domains names .co.uk(for England) and .com (for Canada and the rest). It took me almost 6 months to get the .au site to be in good rankings. I was thinking I could keep optimizing the .au and when someone from England comes to the site they could select the other countries we operate in from a drop down box on the front page. As we started new countries we would change the site so it contained the information for that country but the front page would stay the same but have the drop down country selection box. If the wanted England they press England and it takes them to .co.uk verison of my site What do you think guys? or I can get a script that detects your location and automatically redirects to a version related to the location of the user? Im not that a good programmer my self Thanks in advance
Some of the larger sites have a geolocation script that detects your IP and redirects you to site.com/uk or site.com/au etc Probably the best solution for seo purposes is to have a different site with different content for each country you are targetting. Make sure you host them in the target country and build local links as well.
Letting them choose from a drop down won't work well if they enter via 'deeper' pages via SE's. If they always enter via the homepage then it's fine. I'd have 'flags' of the supported countries in the header. Or the IP detection deal.
Im planning that also cause i know it would be a factor, in local search results. One thing I had to know is the percentage of search users that use the the local search and the usual search. So i can be more detailed on what strategy i would imply... What do you think guys?
I don't think you will find these figures anywhere. The 'usual search' is also geotargetted don't forget.