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Hi Dunamis,

Many thanks for your answer, but in case I don't use the canonical, is correct what I explain?

Thanks

Hi there!

The home page of my site can be seen under www.mysitename.com and www.mysitename.com/EN/ or www.mysitename.com/ES/ (depending on your language).

I understand that this is duplicated content because they show the same content under different URLs. To solve this we've done (depending on your language) a 301 redirect from www.mysitename.com to www.mysitename.com/EN/ or www.mysitename.com/ES/

Is this correct?

Thanks!

Many thanks Hildebrando for your quick answer. I don't want to use a 301 redirect because users won't see the new domain www.newdomain.com, instead they will see and navigate the current site www.mysite.com/countryname/. I guess I am right

Thanks!

Hi John,

Many thanks for your answer!

In fact the URL www.mysite.com/countryname/ won't be accessible from anywhere in www.mysite.com. Therefore I guess there's no need to do the canonical thing, well maybe  just in case I don't do it right Is this correct?

I understand that search engines won't penalize the site for creating a 'new site' from a existing one, right?

Thanks!

We have already a site and we want to make business in another country. We don't want to make a copy of our site because it requires more resources, but we want to use a different domain because the business will be run by a partner in that country. The idea is to make a folder in our site, www.mysite.com/countryname/ and associate a new domain www.newdomain.com, so when users go to the new domain they see the content under www.mysite.com/country/. Since de www.newdomain.com will use DNS redirection, the current domain won't be seen.

Is this correct from a SEO perspective?

Thanks!

I have spotted that some countries in South America generate lot's of traffic on my site and  I don't want to sell my service there. Can I be penalized for blocking IPs from certain counties?

Thanks!