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Amway, Your question needs quite a bit of clarification. Google's geo preference works a bit differently than just .com vs. .us for the same /similar content.  So, if you use a .US outside of the US you are stating you want to target US customers. A .com is not country specific so it won't necessarily exclude any region, but if you are outside the US, with server outside the US and with no geo targeting input, and your customer is in the US, I would use a .US.  A .com is generally better for the US than a .us for the US customer, but for a different reason than Google.  If a US customer sees .US for one result and a similar result (different site) with .com, I believe that 8 times out of 10 they will take the .com because they are more comfortable with it. I hope that helps.  Remember, if you are using the same or very similar content, be very careful with canonicalization, etc. when trying to use both. Best, Robert

Thank you Rob for taking the time to answer. Much appreciated. That's pretty much the direction we started with. I kind of look at it like an internal search. When an internal search is made for a product that doesn't exist, they get returned to a 200 and static item not found page. So we are moving forward this same method. Our next step is to reduce 8k 404s a week we get!