Hi Shane Thomas.

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually contents is not exactly same, but alot similar. Because I sell different products for different countries.

For example, I sell 30 products for US but only 10 products for UK. In this case, my UK site has only pages for 10 products. Of course, contents lay out and products are similar.

In this case, should I worry about cloaking?

Also, how search engine can see "intent is not deceptive or not"?

I always wondering about that. ^^

Hello, Lewis-SEO. Thanks for your reply, but I am not totally following your answer.

What do you mean by "Google only version of the site"?

You mentioned as follow.

"You will therefore need to decide which regional variation you want Google to end up at when it tries to visit/crawl the www.example.com URL"

Is this meaning that I should set "user agent redirection" for Google bot to send it to particular regional site? e.g. send Google bot to only www.example.com/us/ no matter which country IP address Google bot has?

Please correct me, if I am wrong. But this sounds more cloacking to me.

Google bot with DE IP address should redirect to www.example.com/de/ so google bot can crawl right contents. And when Google bot with UK IP addres should redirect to www.example.com/uk/.

I think if I send alll Google bot to www.example.com/us/ for example, it will confuse google bot more.

Could you please be more specific regarding your answer? PLEASE ~~~

HEllo~~~~ People.

I have a question regarding on cloaking.

I will be really greatful if you can help me with question.

I have a site www.example.com and it is targeting for multi countries.

So I use sub directories for targeting multi countries.

e.g. www.example.com/us/

www.example.com/de/

www.example.com/hk/ ....... so on and on.

Therefore, when people type www.example.com, I use IP delivery to send users to each coutries.

Here is my question.

I use 301 redirect for IP delivery, which means when user enter www.example.com,

my site read user's IP and send them to right country site by 301 redirect.

In this case, is there any possibility that Google considers it as cloaking?

Please people.... share me some ideas and thoughs.