Redirection Impact on SEO

[KoushikRoy]

Need help urgently.

There is the situation [This is how is it working now]:

1. Have a global landing page [say when user types in www.mysite.com - takes user to the global landing page: [www.mysite.com/global/en.html]](http://www.mysite.com/global/en.html] )

2. Users from this landing page can select a country on his/her choice and get redirected say: [www.mysite.com/us/en.html]

Would like to change the functionality as below:

1. When user types in www.mysite.com

1a. Would find the location of the request based on GEO IP and if the request is coming from North America region then would redirect the users to: www.mysite.com/us/en.html

1b. If the request is from any other location/region then it would continue to work as it is currently working: take the user to the global landing page: www.mysite.com/global/en.html

Would this change have any negative impact or not found by search engines from SEO perspective? If it does then what are the impacts and if does not then why not. If it does then what is the best possible way to address this request.

Appriciate your help.

Thanks, Koushik Roy

[SanketPatel]

Hi Koushik,

May I know inner URLs of  "/us" and "/global" pages ? Both have same content or different content ?

And about IP based redirection. Here is the solution : http://www.seomoz.org/q/ip-redirection-vs-cloaking-no-clear-directives-from-google