Should I do a 301 redirect

[Paul78]

Hi Everyone,

Hope you can help me out here.

I have .co.uk & .ie website with similar content. On a particular section of the .co.uk website it is updated daily (Q&As, Blog posts etc) .ie does have this section but to a lesser degree, no daily updates etc, I was wondering if we should simply do a 301 redirect when someone is on the .ie website to .co.uk, it means the user is getting a much better experience however not entirely the consequences from search engines on this?

Thanks

[LucasGarvin]

Interesting situation. Could you provide a URL for us QA guys to look at? That would help me get a better look at what you're dealing with. Thanks.

Lucas

[lbi-tr]

Hi Gary,

Great Question. I have made a video response with an answer for you.

http://youtu.be/uLvuTjFkQMU

In summary

Don't 301 the page. You will lose the traffic for the .ie site.

Instead, add a button to the end of the post offering more information on the UK site.

Or if you are feeling fancy build a piece of javascript that detects if the user has been on the same page for more than 3 minutes then produce a popup offering more information on the UK site.

Hope this helps

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