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OK. I'm working on an international site.

The site is setup with folders for UK, US, AU    e.g www.site.com/UK/index.aspx

The root  (non folder based) is the international version of the site  e.g www.site.com/index.aspx

www.site.com/index.aspx has the lions share of links.

Therefore, the pages immediately linked from www.site.com/index.aspx have page rank distributed between them.

My UK, US and AU home pages are linked via a country selector  from the www.site.com/index.aspx page via an aspx redirect page that 301's to the appropriate country home page. Therefore the home pages of UK, US, AU are recieving some of the 'juice' that is coming in to www.site.com/index.aspx (but only a fraction via the redirect links)

Am I right in thinking that pages on the international version of the site will have much more potential to rank (because of their 'juice') than the pages on UK, US and AU versions of the site?

If so, am I right in thinking that these will tend to rank over the equivalent UK, US and AU versions of the pages in each country version of Google despite having set directory level Geo-targetting in GWT?

Calling all those with ecommerce SEO chops!

What are the high impact tasks that you would always start out your new campaigns with?

I've got this far in my thinking:

1. Identifying query classes, identifying the intent of each query class and setting up ranking indices
2. ensuring templated META page titles match the most valuable query syntax
3. identify any issues with crawl budget that might prevent deep product page indexing
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Hoping this can be one of those discussion threads that is so useful people bookmark it for future reference!

Many thanks!

Yep when/if Google shut down search operators there are a lot of processes that will be FUBAR!

100% agree a full ecommerce related Technical Audit is a must as a starting point. WQe recently saw a spider trap issue that was preventing a high percentage of  a clients product pages being crawled and indexed. Resolving was a major 'quick win'.

Thanks for weighing in Everett. Appreciate it!