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@Nick

1. I do have multiple ccTLDs for the same site. The content for each, however, will be significantly different.
2. By 'domain-mapping' I meant actually getting into the DNS records and mapping the ccTLD URL to a sub-domain
3. Rel canonical redirect: I'm assuming that the .com.uk would be the canonical page? If this page is the canonical page, and the com/uk/ is the 'discounted' page, what happens if the rest of the site uses the .com/uk convention? (In other words, is it advisable to have this inconsistency [both from a usability, index point-of-view]?)

@Gary

I think this is a very interesting point. I agree with both of you that if I saw a billboard for domain.com/uk, I might think it to be slightly odd. However, I'm not sure if consistency trumps familiarity or not.

Further down the rabbit-hole:

I will have multiple languages (let's say en, fr, es). I want this to utilise sub-directories (I want to avoid super-fancy AJAX whatnot. I HATE Google's help page URLs, for instance).

domain.com/us/en/
domain.com/us/es/

The idea here is that the site rank for multiple languages, within a country (without creating super-duper long URLs). Any ideas/tips?

Maybe a quick outline might help:

1 - Main (sort of a splash/navigation page)

1 -  USA

1 - EN

2 - ES

2 - UK

1 - EN

3 - France

1 - FR

2 - EN

Howdy Everyone,

I have a website that will span multiple countries. The content served will be different for each country. As such, I've acquired the top level domains for different countries.

I want to map the cop level domains (e.g. domain.co.uk) to uk.domain.com for development purposes (LinkedIn does this).

I'm curious to know whether this is adviseable and if mapping a country-specific TLD to a subdomain will maintain local SEO value.

Thanks!