Impact on Global SEO of Losing One Regional Site
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Hi,
Plans are in place to have an affiliate company take over the marketing, sale, and distribution of our products in one region of the 35 that we currently operate in. The regional site is responsible for 10% of our overall global traffic. 26% of the revenue to that specific site comes from organic search traffic. The question is whether the loss of this traffic and these pages will have any negative impact on our global SEO status?
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Hi,
It is possible to have negative impact on your global SEO status, You have specifies that regional traffic is only 10% for overall traffic then might be it places little affect on your global SEO,
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