shop. pages are simply new pages which are added for products to be sold with ease. I think that i might move shop.uk.xyz.com pages to uk.xyz.com/shop/product as in a sub folder. Do you think this will help in passing on the link juice to those pages after the change and would be easy for me to include them in the sitemap as well??

I have already created separate profiles for the subdomains, but my only worry is where to place the sitemap on the server eg in the root directory of the root domain or in the root directory of the sub domain.

Coming to the (2) the pages which i want to include in the site map are my product pages. so want to know if shop.uk.xyz.com can be included in the sitemap which will be for uk.xyz.com and also if does that count as a internal page of uk.xyz.com

Thank you for your inputs. I has relly helped me understand the situation.

I will try to implement this and let you know how I have done on this. Also I had few more things on this:

1. do i require a separate sitemap and robots file for all the sub domains and where shall i place it on the server?

2. in the sub domain there are pages like shop.uk.xyz.com/product1. so can i include that in the sitemaps as those are the pages which i really want to rank for.

Thanx Darin!

I have few doubts on this:

1. is rel canonical like a 301 redirect? As my concern is if my user goes to www.uk.xyz.com/productx , will he be redirected to to www.xyz.com/product

2. my sub domain pages are ranking in the country specific search engine. For ex, www.uk.xyz.com is ranking for keywords in google.co.uk. So if i noindex then i will loose my search engine presence in the country specific search engine.

PS the content on the pages is all same apart from the product currency.

Hi Mozer's,

I have a site www.xyz.com and also geo targeted sub domains www.uk.xyz.com, www.india.xyz.com and so on. All the sub domains have the content which is same as the content on the main domain that is www.xyz.com.

So, I want to know how can i avoid content duplication.

Many Thanks!

Thankx Irving for your inputs on this... I have a clear picture on this now

That sounds good to start with I will check for all the factors. I am a bit not sure if search engines do consider domain registration details for this situation.

Thanks Rafi!

Hi Guys! I have two websites which link to each other but are on the same server. Both the sites have a great PR and link juice. I want to know what steps shall I take in order to make google feel that both the sites are not owned by me. Like shall i get different IP and different servers for both or something more?

Looking forward for you thoughts and help!