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    • GrumpyCarl
      GrumpyCarl last edited by

      Hi, looking for a second opinion on this please....

      I own a couple of web stores, one targets UK and the other USA (they are both the same store more or less just different products targeted at different location). The uk runs on a .co.uk domain and the US on a .us domain.  Is there a safe way that I could auto redirect search engine traffic to the right location? Let's say the toys page of the .co.uk is ranking well in google uk and appears high in google us too, obviously I would want the USA users to visit the toys page for the US store rather than the UK one. Ideally I would employ a geo redirect script so if a USA user clicks on the UK domain they are redirected to the USA site but would Google frown on that?

      Hope that makes sense?

      Thanks

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      • RobertFisher
        RobertFisher last edited by

        ccgdm

        You can redirect the traffic based on IP address of the traffic coming in so long as the googlebot is seeing the same redirection. This is from GWMT on geolocation and IP delivery. Otherwise you are cloaking in the eyes of Google:

        IP delivery: Serving targeted/different content to users based on their IP address, often because the IP address provides geographic information. Because IP delivery can be viewed as a specific type of geolocation, similar rules apply. Googlebot should see the same content a typical user from the same IP address would see. (Bold is mine).

        There are a ton of scripts on the web for doing this depending on your situation.

        Best

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        • GrumpyCarl
          GrumpyCarl @RobertFisher last edited by

          Thanks that sounds good. Will investigate more but glad there is a way to do it.

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