One web site vs multiple web sites

I am in the process of building a site that is targeted to sell product/services to several geographical locations. I am wondering what would make the best SEO sense:
1. Create one site with all the locations (pages optimized for each location)
2. Create one site with several sub domains ( location.domain.com )
3. Create a separate site for each location (separate domain name for each)

I can see that it would be more maintenance creating a separate site for each location, but I am willing to do that if it will make a favorable impact to spiders and users...

Does anyone have suggestions?

 

For me, I'll go with:
1. Create one site with all the locations (pages optimized for each location)
It'll be easier to you to maintain the contents. And your site will full with contents which search engines and people will like that.

Just name each page is like "myanmar.php", "vietnam.php" etc and put some backlink to it.

 

3. Create a separate site for each location (separate domain name for each)

My experience is worth to you to go for third option
And the various domains hosting servers host different by region
For example: Domain CO.UK
Hosted on a server in UK

Good luck

 

Thanks for your input - I suppose I could do one site with all locations and then build separate ones for each location... do you see any issues or gotchas with that scenario?

 

I would recommend you to build the main location on the domain and sub locations on sub-domains. I don't see any problem with respect to SEO by having several sub-domains. Only thing you need to consider is each subdomain would be looked at by search engines as a new site, which means you will need to do everything you would normally do for a new site.

See What are the SEO benefits with Subdomains article on that.

 

yes, creating one site and putting all energy into that is more advisable.

 

1. Create one site with all the locations (pages optimized for each location)

I prefer this

 

i agree with you

 

+1 for #1 =)

 

one is better and you can map multiple domains on one website..

 

I would go with creating one website with multiple subdomains/folders for each individual languages. That way you won't have to worry about many things. It's more simpler and the domain rankings can apply to all pages versus the multi domain approach where each site would have to rank for itself.