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I guess so.  It will either push it into /us/ or /uk/

So Google was seeing my www.mysite.net/index.php?country=usa and www.mysite.net/index.php?country=uk as two separate pages and reporting it as duplicate content.  So I have 1) created a canonical as www.mysite.net/index.php and do a redirect from www.mysite.net/index.php?country=usa/uk to www.mysite.net/index.php once the cookie has been set.  This seems to have solved that problem.

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out the best way to manage our international sites.  We have two locations, 1 in the UK and 1 in the USA.  I currently use GEOIP to identify the location of the browser and redirect them using a cookie to index.php?country=uk or index.php?country=usa.  Once the cookie is set I use a 301 redirect to send them to index.php, so that Google doesnt see each url as duplicate content, which Webmaster tools was complaining about.

This has been working wonderfully for about a year.  It means I have a single php language include file and depending on the browser location I will display $ or £ and change the odd ise to ize, etc.

Problem I am starting to notice is that we are starting to rank better and better in the USA search result.  I am guessing this is because the crawlers must be based out of the USA.  This is great, but my concern is that I am losing rank in the UK, which is currently where most of our business is done out of...

So I have done my research and because I have a .net will go for a /uk/ or /us/ sub folder and create two separate webmaster tools site and set them up to target each geographic location.  Is this okay?  http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192#2

HERE IS THE PROBLEM: I don't was to have to run two separate website with two separate sets of copy.  Also, I dont want to lose all the rank data on urls like:  http://www.mysite.net/great-rank-result.html now becomes  http://www.mysite.net/uk/great-rank-result.html.  On top of this I will have two pages, the one just mentioned and now adding http://www.mysite.net/us/great-rank-result.html, which I presume would be seen as duplicate copy? (Y/n)

Can I use rel canonical to overcome this?  How can I don't this without actually running the two pages.  Could you actually have 1 site in the root folder and just use the same GEOIP techology to do a smart MOD REWRITE adding either UK or US to the url therefore being able to create two webmaster accounts targeting each geographic location?

Any advise is most welcome.