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I've been doing a bit more digging and I'm wondering if its the GEO IP tool we're using (MaxMind) and the way it is configured which is effecting our ranking...

We have a GEO-IP redirect in place for our domain, so that users are pointed to the subfolder relevant for their region, e.g: Visit example.com from the UK and you will be redirected to example.com/uk

This works fine when you manually type the domain into your browser, however if you search for the site and come to example.com, you end up at example.com

I didn't think this was too much of an issue but our subfolders /uk and /au are not getting ranked at all in Google, even for branded keywords. I'm wondering if the fact that Google isn't picking up the redirect means that the pages aren't being indexed properly?

Conversely our US region (example.com/us) is being ranked well.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue?

Which leads me stumped as to whats stopping these two subfolders being ranked.. we're no.1 for branded keywords in the US for some pages on example.com/us and not even ranked in the UK for example.com/uk for the same keywords.

While the duplicate content issues were on the same domain, they were for a sub-folder. It doesn't seem to have effected another sub-folder on the site (example.com/us) so my feeling is that this is a different issue.

I manage the SEO for several different regions which are also based on the same site e.g. example.com/au, example.com/us

The /us site has pretty good rankings and changes I'm making to the site are having an impact. The /au site has really bad rankings, even though much of the content is the same. (The /uk site is also awful but we had an issue with 4,500 duplicate pages which were only resolved last week). Crawl diagnostics are only showing 1 major error for a 404 response, I'm receiving a domain authority of 43 and A grade page ranking for some of our targeted keywords. I could believe that this isn't necessarily going to get us a top 10 rating but I would have thought we would be in the top 50, especially for branded keywords.

Could the lack of ranking be to do with how our domain redirects? If you go to example.com.au you are taken to the home page rather than being redirected to example.com/au. Once you head to an internal page the URL changes to example.com/au/page

I actually had a look at the robots.txt last night to block the effected areas and discovered the dev's who built the site hadn't set it up. We've added a default one which we're going to test over the next week to see how it fares. If that doesn't work then we'll start looking at the parameters.

Thanks.

On one my sites Moz is picking up 4483 duplicate content pages. The majority of these are from our blog and video sections on our site.

We're using a URL shortener and it appears that some of the pages are the full version of the URL then the shortened version. However if you go to the full version you get redirected to the shorter one. So I would assume that the Moz crawler should get the same redirect?

We're also getting pagination being shown as duplicate pages, which I would half expect, but the URLs Magento is creating are truly bizarre:

e.g http://www.xxx.com/uk/blog/cat/view/identifier/news/page/news/index.php/alarms-doorbells/?p=2

Alarms and doorbells is one of our product categories, which is displayed in the LHN on the blog page but has nothing to do with the blog itself.

On another site on the same Magento instance, with the same content (they're for two different regions) we're show as having 248 duplicate pages, again in the video and news section, but this is a completely different scale of issue.

Has anyone else encountered issues like these? I'm probably going to put a noindex in place on these two sections until we can get a solution in place as we're completely unranked in google on this site.

Thanks

I've run the crawl test one of the sites I've taken over SEO for, however its only picking all the pages. For instance it indexes all the pages under xxxxx/us but none under xxxxx/au or xxxxx/uk

The pages are being indexed as they're ranking in Google.

Thanks.