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Thanks man!

That's what I was thinking! I'll go with the original plan then to put all on one index except the ccTLDs.

Hey Dudes,

Quick question about international sitemaps. Basically we have a mix of subfolders, subdirectories, and ccTLDs for our different international/language sites.

With this in mind how do you recommend we set up the site map. I'm thinking the best solution would be to move the subfolders and subdirectories onto an index and put the ccTLD site maps on their own root only.

domain.ca/sitemap (This would only contain the Canada pages)

domain.com, fr.domain.com, domain.com/eu/ (These pages would all have an index on domain.com/sitemap that points to each language/nations index)

OR

Should all site have a site map under their area. domain.com/sitemap, fr.domain.com/sitemap, domain.com/eu/sitemap, domain.ca/sitemap?

I'm very new to international SEO. I know that our current structure probably isn't ideal... but it's what I've inherited. I just want to make sure I get a good foundation going here. So any tips are much appreciated!

Thanks for the tips man!

My only concern is domain.com/us/ showing up on google instead of domain.com

Is there anything I can do too keep it the SERP juice going to domain.com instead of the subfolder?

Dirk,

Great thoughts! We're currently talk through out long term international strategy right now. We're running about 20 local sites times 3 brands. Some are on subfolders, some on subdomains, and some on ccTLDs... so this is pretty tough right now.

We luckily caught an issue with Googlebot not being able to access internationally and corrected it. So I think we're safe on that front.

Most of the regions are cross accessible (Europe/APAC/North America) but you can't get from Asia to Europe if you need to from the site. So that's on our radar!

So in this case we don't need point a canonical from the subfolder to the root. But I need something like...

So then... will domain.com/us/ start ranking for google.com or will domain.com rank for google.com?

Howdy,

Working on a larger eComm site that 302s you based on your location. With that in mind should I canonicalize the final page.

domain.com => 302 => domain.com/us/, domain.com/fr/, etc... (Should these all have a canonical pointing to the root domain.com?

Thanks for the tips man!