'Select your country' page leading to high Temporary Redirects

[Bio-RadAbs]

Hello all,

I manage an ecommerce website and product prices are shown depending on what country you select.

When a user does a product search or lands on a product page, they are immediately redirected to a 'select your country' page. After selecting their option, the user is redirected back to the product or search result page.

The problem I face is that, this is leading to a high 'Temporary Redirects' list in my crawl diagnostic page. Looking at the list of temporary redirects, 90% are users being bounced to a 'select your country' page.

Any advice to tackle this? Have you guys faced anything similar?

Thanks

Cyto

[ZephSnapp]

Hi,

This might be a little simplistic, but why do you need to know their country before they look at your product?  Either ask them via an overlay the instant they get to your site, or put it off until they've selected their items and are already in your cart.  Either of these options will be better both for User Experience and SEO.

[Bio-RadAbs]

Hi Zeph,

The select your country only appears for product search results or product pages as it determines the country specific price.

Before we had the country selector as the first page upon visiting our website but that annoyed visitors as there were resource rich pages on our site and not everyone might be interested in products pages. The thinking was to only show the country selector if the page visiting required it (price)

Another way we looked at it was a user might land on a resource page from a search engine, again popping the country selector would be unnecessary.

Once they accepted their country, the cookies will store and won't show this option anyone.