I have a uk based ecommerce store and now want to expand to sell the same products in Europe and USA. My shopping cart will not support multiple currencies and I want different prices in different countries, so I thought it easiest to set up a duplicate store for each country. To do this I would like to use subdomains from my existing site. I am wondering if this will be bad from an SEO perspective, as it will be duplicate content (could it be viewed as spamming?). If so, what would be the best way to achieve multiple stores. Thanks!
Subdomains are sometimes not good for SEO. I suggest you buy the domain yourdomain.eu for the Europe store. and a .com If available for the USA store, you can add links to each site on each site.
Thanks for the response. This is what I am planning on doing, but to save on purchasing additional hosting, I would like host the actual sites on subdomains. So for example, if my uk site is www.abc.co.uk, www.abc.com would point to europe.abc.co.uk. Will this impact SEO, or should I purchase hosting for each .com, .eu domain?
Regional filters make it so you host close to the origin of the country you want priority rankings in. So host in the US for .com and co.uk for co.uk domains. Others go the extra mile and take a co.uk or .eu and host it in the US to try and get priority in .com and .co.uk search engines. BTW- doesn't anyone remember Google PR 0'ing a bunch of sites using hundreds of subdomains back in 2003-2004? IMHO, they will do this again, avoid sub-domain spam, its abundant again.
You dont really have to purchase additional hosting for the 2 new sites. There are ways you can run all 3 sites and more by paying only the price of 1 hosting. Read my PM