Move into new markets

[melvinwu]

We are going to move into a new market - Malaysia. Currently our domain is like this https://www.babyment.com, and what will be your suggestion for domain for our new market: https://my.babyment.com or something else? Furthermore, currently in google webmaster, we set our target country to Singapore, what should I change when we move into the new market? Thanks

[JamesCrossland]

What's your website built with?

Can you use wordpress multisite (or something similar if not?)

You could then configure it for mywebsite.com/my/

You could also then have a mywebsite.com/sg

with your .com being a generic catch all international (excluding Singapore and Malaysia)

All you'd need do is get your lang tags set up right and you can copy all your content over

[Ian_Lewis]

Hi,

With Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) such as .com Google use something called geotagging. In Google Search Console, you are able to select 'unlisted' within the international targeting option. This means that Google will determine what country the user is in and decide whether the site should be shown within this country.

However, you would need to specify a language within the URL or the sitemap of the page.

For example, if https://www.babyment.com was unlisted in Google Search Console and it was searched for in Malaysia, you would need to specify the country and the language so Google understands that this page can be used by the people in Malaysia.

In my opinion, the best URL to have in this situation would be https://www.babyment.com/en/my which indicates 'en' the website is for English speaking and 'my' is the website is targeted for Malaysia.

Alternatively you can specify the language and country of the page within the source code of the page using hreflang="en-my"