Hello, I've been arguing with my boss about this for a while now and would really appreciate outside opinions.. We have a website, example.co.uk - which targets UK visitors. We also want to target people in the EU with example.eu. What is the best way of having one website, but make the TLD's target different places. For example, if someone was to visit from England, it would take you to example.co.uk, but if someone visits from France it would take you to example.eu - which will be the exact same website. He thinks we need to duplicate the website, and change the domain.. but wouldn't this be seen as duplicate content? And would this also mean there would be two websites to work on building up instead of just the one? Hope this makes sense, any opinions/solutions would be fantastic. Thanks
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Well @ColdRicePudding I will say better will be two create two different version of the site i.e the content on both of the site must be different otherwise Google will see it as a duplicate. Try creating two version one for UK i.e. example.co.uk (with the content targeted for UK visitor) and another from France i.e. example.au (with the new content targeted for France)