Same website in different countries, best practices for SEO?

[Michael-Goode]

Hey Guys,

I have read several similar questions regarding mine, but none seem to truly cover my question. Basically, we have a company named Junair. We created the website for the company here in Australia (http://www.junair.com.au). As can be seen throughout the page, it mentions that it caters for both Australia and NZ (NZ has its own phone number). It does ok in the rankings at the moment, but rankings will continue to rise in the future once more links are getting picked up.

Now however, the Junair team in NZ purchased the NZ domain http://www.junair.co.nz and redirected it to the Australian page. No matter which page you visit on the NZ URL, the URL will never change, and neither will the page title. They have now contacted us and asked to perform SEO on the NZ domain so the NZ domain would show up in searches on Google NZ.

At the moment, when searching for "Junair" on google.co.nz, the Australian domain is coming up. How could I change this so the NZ URL would show instead? And what would be the best practices to perform SEO on the NZ URL, should I just create links pointing to http://www.junair.co.nz ?

Thank you,

Roderic

[JamesNorquay]

Best practics:

1. Use different content on both the NZ and AU website.

2. Target links from the NZ websites for the NZ.

3. Try to host locally for the NZ site (not a huge concern)

4. GEO target the .nz domain in Google web master tools.

5. Use GEO specific locations, addresses and contact info on the NZ site.