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Thanks Ryan!

I guess my main concern is to not have existing rankings penalised. For example, the head office is based in Australia with other offices around the world - if Googlebot comes in from the US and gets a US IP.. would Australian rankings drop?

Also, I believe the content being served will be identical to all regions.. for now at least.

Howdy

My client has a .com site they are looking at hosting via Akamai - they have offices in various locations, e.g UK, US, AU, RU & in some Asian countries.

If they used Akamai, would the best approach be to set up seperate sites per country:

• .co.uk
• .com
• .com.au
• .ru
• .sg etc

Although my understanding is that Googlebot is located in the US so if it crawled any of those sites it would always get a US IP address?

So is the answer perhaps to go with Akamai for the .com only which should target the US market and use different / seperate C class hosts for the others?

Thanks!

Woj