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With Austrian/German IP I mean, that we planed to redirect the user IP wise.

So if anybody comes to the site with an ip from Austria he should be redirected to the /at site

If anybody comes to the site with an ip from Germany he should be redirected to the /de site

Data comes from GeoIP Database.

So you'r saying, that we don't need a main Home Site?
How do the crawler know where to go?

Best case would be to have domain.com/AT/ indexed in Google.at

and domain.com/DE/ indexed in Google.de

a) Language Meta would be the same for /AT and /DE because the language is german in both countries.

b) Will check how this works

c) What do you mean with update the content to mention the country and location?
Content wise there won't be much difference. That's why im concerned about DC.
The difference would be some headlines and the terms of delivery!

We'r starting a new webshop soon and and one of our programmers came up with the following:

Different Home Sites (Index Pages) for Austria and Germany.

The Language is both times German but some words are different than others. The customer would like to have that.

So we would have:

domain.com (No Austrian or German IP Address)

domain.com/at/ (User with Austrian IP Adress)

domain.com/de/ (User with German IP Address)

Is this SEO wise a disadvantage?

How to set up the canonicals? DE & AT Page with the Canonical on the main Domain?

Any advice?

Thank you

I think I'll do it. Also to rank better in the other languages. Because my main language site is the strongest site of those. So rankings in the other languages should increase too - right?

thank you for your answer!

Hey folks!

I was wondering what you would do.

I do have a Website. The website is provided in 8 other languages. Right now every language has it's own Domain name. The domain name is always the country in the language. I'm thinking about combine everything to one domain and hope to get some great linkjuice from the other 7 domains. So it would be www.example.com/en/ www.example.com/fr/ and so on. How do you handle that.

Would this have a big positive impact on that one domain I'm forwarding to?
I really think so!