Matt is right on this.

Some years you may have tried to look for satellite websites or more. Now it's definitely not recommended.

In our case we reviewed all our competitors backlinks to see if there is any good website to do guest blogging with.

But the main guideline is now is: write content, make it good and useful, promote it on social media.

It is the best methods (at least the 7/30/13)

Hello

I got the same situation with customers recently. The best I've found was to tell them:

"You're definitely right we cannot loose the .eu. So we gonna redirect it to the BESTDOMAINE.com as main website. So people will still find you and you'll get more customers and will keep the .eu."

Then you can provide some technical arguments explaining that if he sticks to this position he will loose business.

In my case it worked out

From 50° in Dubai

Hello Seomoz people !

I've been struggling for some time now with an international website project.

It's gonna be an:international website with joomla.

To sum up:

• We have an international company
• The company has 13 subsidiaries worldwide (same products, different names)
• The company doesn't have enough resources to get 13 independent websites
• Some subsidiaries work in one country / one language, some others on a region (several countries, several languages)

Thanks to your community we decided to:

• Get a main website company.com

• Get subsidiaries folders (middle east, oceania and south america will be easier to link to their subsidiary)

  • .com/asia
  • .com/middle-east
  • .com/oceania
  • .com/south-america
• • .com/uk
  • .com/usa
  • .com/fr
  • .com/es
  • .com/de
  • .com/ma
  • .com/dz
  • .com/it

We also need to:

• Get some websites in different languages
  • .com/asia-cn
  • .com/asia-en
  • etc.

Now how do we do to manage:

• Regional websites (the first 4th on the upper list)

  • Google allows to affect a website to a country not region
  • Will they compete with the .com ?
  • How do we set up them for google ?

• How do we avoid duplicate content and keep local ranking

  • .com/asia-en/services1.html will have the exact same content that_.com/services1.html_
  • If we use canonical from _.com/asia-en/services1.htm_l to _.com/services1.html , d_oes that mean /asia will not rank in asia ?

Hope you can help us to figure us the best solution for this good project !

Thanks a lot.

Florian