What is the most effective way of indexing a localised website?

[dotcentric]

Hi all,

I have a website, www.acrylicimage.com which provides products in three different currencies, $, £ and Euro. Currently a user can click on a flag to indicate which region they are in, or if the user has not manually selected the website looks at the users Locale setting and sets the region for them. The website also has a very simple content management system which provides ever so slightly different content depending on which region the user is in. The difference in content might literally be a few words per page, like contact details, measurements i.e. imperial to metric.

I dont believe that GoogleBot, or any other bot for that matter, sets a Locale, and therefore it will only ever be indexing the content on our default region - the UK.

So, my question really is if I need to be able to index different versions of content on the same page, is the best route to provide alternate urls i.e.:

/en/about-us
/us/about-us
/eu/about-us

The only potential downside I see to this is there are currently a couple of pages that do have exactly the same content regardless of whether you have selected the UK or USA regions - could this be considered content duplication?

Thanks for your help.

Al

[mosaicpro]

If it's just currency that you want to have different i suggest not having that  /en   /us   /uk

Because most of your website will then be duplicate....

Unless you plan on having different content for every /en/pagename    /us/pagename   /uk/pagename   i suggest not having /en/us/uk