Doubt with geoip redirection

[dMaLasp]

Hi everyone,

I managed an international site with subfolders for for the countries (us, uk, fr, ...). The homepage has a geoip redirection to the specific user country.

I've checked some old posts like this ones but it's not cleared for me if I should do a 301 or a 302 redirection.

• https://moz.com/community/q/geoip-redirection-301-or-302
• https://moz.com/community/q/geoip-and-redirects

I know that the best approach it’s avoid automatic redirections but it's  not a possibility for me. So please, can you help me to decide what type of redirection should I use?

[RobertFisher]

It would help if you gave us a bit more data, but here goes:

Use the 301 from the main site to the subfolder. Understand you do not want to have the subfolder then redirect back to the main site. If you do you are going to create a loop. So the assumption is that everyone is served the initial home page from the host country and in milliseconds, the IP is read and they are redirected. So, you are hosted in Denver, I am coming to you from Fr, and it auto redirects me to the Fr subfolder. (Question, this is occurring whether homepage or subpage correct? You are not just redirecting from homepage, correct?)

I am assuming you have utilized hreflang notations correctly. Make sure to read the common mistakes at bottom of page.

Hope this helps,

Robert

[dMaLasp]

Thanks for the answer Robert.

Yes, I´m using hreflang correctly and the serps of the different country versions shows the corresponding country folders.

i.e. google.co.uk shows results from the uk folder, google.fr shows the fr folder,…

The redirect only occurs on the homepage from mydomain.com to mydomain.com/fr, mydomain.com/uk,…..

If a user is in the French folder but is located in London isn’t redirect to the UK folder.