Subdir vs Subdomain vs ccTLD
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Hello Community,
I'm running a .com website with India targetted audience on Webmastertools from 2 years. Now I want to start a separate zone for US.
.us domain is not available for my domain right now. So what is your suggestion for best results:
1. domain/us (Subdirectory)
2. us.domain (Subdomain)
3. new domain (separate website)
I think Subdomain can work great if I will pass place a header link sitewide. Or that can reduce authority as mentioned on few blogs?
Let me know your thoughts
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I don't think so - you can leave as is.
At some time in the future if you start adding a lot of countries it might look more sensible, but I wouldn't do it straight away.
Regards
Nigel
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Thanks, Niger
Is it important to do "yourstore.com/in/category/product-1"
As my current traffic is to "yourstore.com/category/product-1" for India and redirecting may impact rankings.
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Hi
There has been a slew of these types of questions recently - everyone must be expanding worldwide!
Go with:
Then make sure you implement hreflang tags sitewide. These must self-reference and then reference the other version of the page.
This is exactly what the hreflang tag is for, to tell Google that each subfolder and page is targeting a different country and possibly language, and so is not duplicate content.
If a page exists like this:
yourstore.com/category/product-1
yourstore.com/us/category/product-1As long as both pages have an hreflang tag pointing to themselves and the other version you will be absolutely fine, no duplication, no worries!
Read more: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
You could then expand internationally with
yourstore.com/uk/category/product-1
and consider moving to
yourstore.com/in/category/product-1
For India at some point. I hope that helps,
Regards
Nigel
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