Re: Auto Detection of Currency based on IP & Google SEO

[amitgg]

Greetings to the fellow Moz community members!

On an e-commerce site, I am using a script to change the default currency of storefront based on IP detection ( GBP for UK visitors, CAD for Canadian visitors and so on).

My question is : can this create any problems at all in Google Crawling or Indexing? Will google be able to understand the setup?

I don't think this should trigger the "cloaking" or presenting different content to search engines vs users, but just want to double check from the collective wisdom here.

Thanks for reading, and wish you a good day ahead.

Warm Regards

Amit

[UmarKhan]

Amit,

I do no think Google will consider it as a cloaking unless you're just playing with your "Currency Converter."

If the content and other layout will change based on the IP, then you need to take some serious measurements. For this, check out these useful guides:
http://searchengineland.com/understanding-the-seo-challenges-of-language-detection-47524
http://www.stateofdigital.com/international-seo-ip-redirects/

Hope this helps!

Umar

[amitgg]

Thanks for taking the time out to reply Umar, and I understand your point.

Just the currency sign and the amount will change - nothing else at all. Didn't understand the bit about playing with the "currency converter" (unless you mean experimenting with it to drive major onsite changes - in which case the answer is NO).

Cheers