Canonical URL Multidomain Geolocation Based

[AngelosS]

Hey there Mozzers,

I have a question on the implementation of the canonical tag.

I have 3 TLDs that redirect depending the GeoLocation of the person entering the site.

www.example.com

www.example.co.uk

www.example.com.au

The content is the same to all of those. Should I choose 1 of them that all the canonicals should point or should all them point to themselves with the canonical tag?

[davebuts]

Hi AngelosS,

With that setup, all sites should have a canonical tag pointing the themselves, but they should also have hreflang tags in place between all three sites.

You can read about hreflang tags here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag

Cheers,

David

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey

It depends on a few factors here:

1. What is the desired geographic target for each of these? I am assuming the .au and .co.uk are for Oz and UK so geo target them (auto) in webmaster tools and sign those off

2. The .com is a generic so could be competing - ensure you geo target this to the US if that is the desired geography.

This ensures they are not competing with each other and there will be no duplication issues but is based on the US, Australia and UK assumption.

Hope that helps
Marcus