Pop-up to select country. Any negative SEO effect?

[jorgediaz]

Hi there!

We have similar websites in different countries (it's an ecommerce site). Some times, those websites share the same language and, for example, people from Mexico end up in a page from our website in Argentina. Therefore they see our products in their language buy in a foreign currency.

We would like to show them a pop-up (like a shadowbox) depending on their IP to allow them to go to their local website. There wouldn't be any redirect.

Would that affect our rankings in any way? Would Googlebots see that as well?

Thanks!

[Anthony_Trollope]

I wouldn't consider this as an SEO decision, but a human decision. Is this the best method for your users? Is this the most efficient way for them to be able to perform this particular action? Any negativity is going to affect your users more than it will your SEO I believe in this case.

As to Google bots seeing the pop-up, a general rule I use is if you can see it in the source code of your site, Google can, too.