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I've been reading up on this on Webmaster Tools but just wanted to see if anyone could explain it a bit better.

I have a website which is going live soon which is going to be set up to redirect to a localised URL based on the IP address i.e. NZ IP ranges will go to .co.nz, Aus IP addresses would go to .com.au and then USA or other non-specified IP addresses will go to the .com address.

There is a single CMS installation for the website.

Does this impact the way in which Google is able to search the site? Will all domains be crawled or just one?

Any help would be great - thanks!

Hi Ian,

Thanks for this - that makes a lot of sense. Have been trying to contact the person who put them up but am yet to hear back (I'm forever hopeful though!).

Unfortunately the links are pointing at the homepage, I have already decided to write off a few pages which are suffering from a set of different bad links.

The new link building approach will definitely be good links - the website is for a business selling a quality product so there is no reason we can't build it up using normal marketing and avoid the spam!

Thanks for your help.

I'm still relatively new to SEO, so this site has been super helpful but I've hit a wall. My predecessor at my new(ish) job left me with a site that has been hit pretty hard by Penguin. I've been working at establishing all the bad links, and there are a lot.

One of the things that I have found is that at some point a Social Bookmarking scheme has been run and there are a huge number of links (all with spun content) on low quality sites. I don't think there is any value in them and at the moment they are ranking so badly that I really don't care if a couple of them do have value, I'd rather start again - changing the urls etc is not an option

I can't remove these links so about the best that I can do is to 'bury' them but of course this doesn't mean they disappear. Is this worth doing? Does anybody have any better suggestions?