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Hi belton It's perfectly OK to do cross-domain canonicals which is essentially the same as saying source:. What you are actually saying is that these two pages are the same as each other, don't rank that one, rank this instead. so for example: abc.com/page1 has a duplicate, abc123.com/page1 Put this code on abc123.com/page1 rel="canonical" href="abc.com/page1" /> Google will likely not rank abc123.com/page1 and only rank abc.com/page1. The result in my experience is that abc.com/page1 will rocket northward in search now you have taken the duplicate away! I hope that helps, Best Regards Nigel

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