Geo-Redirection
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Our client has two almost identical sites targeting:
Australia (www.mysite.com.au)
Rest of World (www.mysite.com)
Currently they have splash page on www.mysite.com asking users to select:
Australia
Rest of World (redirects to: www.mysite.com/home)
I'm thinking they should get rid of slash page and simply auto detect if user on www.mysite.com is based in Australia and serve a message "Do you want to visit our .com.au site.
It's not helped by the fact the .com site appears to get served ahead of .com.au iin australia as both sites are hosted in US. Looking to change this!
Thanks in advance for your help!
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GWT > site config > settings. geo target www.mysite.com.au to AU.
As for www.mysite.com, leave it "Unlisted" under Geographic target.
This will make the AU site be seen only in AU while the .com shows world wide.
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In my experience you would want to have two seprate sites with seprate content for the Global market and for the AU specific market.
Having the same content on both the .com and the .com.au is not exactly going to do any thing good for your clients website.
Also with the re directs, I have seen some really messy ones in the past which can also block the ability to crawl the site.
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