Recommendations on implementing regional home pages
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My site is a directory that serves several regions. Each region has it's own "home page" with specific content for that visitor about their region. Right now we use Google location recognition after you visit the home page to redirect you to your regional home page.
I am in the process of reviewing the best way to implement our home page for SEO purposes. Any advice or recommendations on how to present home pages that are location specific would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Steve
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Got it
This is how it's implemented right now.
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Hi Steve,
I just posted a response to a similar question here.
However, if the content you present in the same exact page changes based on the user location, I would personally suggest you create separate pages to serve to specific locations and implement rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags. You can read more on that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
Hope that helps!
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