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Plans are in place to have an affiliate company take over the marketing, sale, and distribution of our products in one region of the 35 that we currently operate in.  The regional site is responsible for 10% of our overall global traffic.  26% of the revenue to that specific site comes from organic search traffic.  The question is whether the loss of this traffic and these pages will have any negative impact on our global SEO status?

Hi,

We are having a global site wide issue with non US site pages being indexed by Google and served up in US search results.  Conversley, we have US en pages showing in the Japan Google search results.

We currently us IP detect to direct users to the correct regional site but it isn't effective if the users are entering through an incorrect regional page.  At the top of each or our pages we have a drop down menu to allow users to manually select their preferred region.  Is it possible that Google Bot is crawling these links and indexing these other regional pages as US and not detecting it due to our URL structure?

Below are examples of two of our URLs for reference - one from Canada, the other from the US

/ca/en/prod4130078/2500058/catalog50008/

/us/en/prod4130078/2500058/catalog20038/

If that is, in fact, what is happening, would setting the links within the drop down to 'no follow' address the problem?

Thank you.

Angie