SEO URL structure theory question

[beltonemarketing]

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[Nigel_Carr]

Hi There

It's more beneficial for you to keep abc123.com.

You have 60,000 visitors a month to the main site. You will then move to be a directory of the main site - they keep the 60k and you are now banking on visitors clicking the link to the US site. Yet the main .com is a US site. You will only, therefore, get a fraction of the visitors you had before.

The other issue, of course, is that I would assume that the main site will be in US English? the same as yours? So yours will not only be a new subdirectory of the main site but now a 100% duplicate, which will kill both sites in search engines.Google will pick the main site as the primary and yours will never feature independently in search. Also the fact that yours duplicates theirs will impact badly in search for them.

If you have an option you must keep the original and let them set up separate country sites. Or you take the missive from above and do what they say - but populate your new site with vastly different content - if you want to rank.

Regards

Nigel