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Dear All,

Have a question.

We've a client (pharma), who has a prescription medicine approved only in the US, and has only one global site at .com which is accessed by all their target audience all over the world.
For the rest of the US, we can create a replica of the home page (which actually features that drug), minus the existence of the medicine, and set IP filter so that non-US traffic see the duplicate of the home page.

Question is, how best to tackle this semi-duplicate page. Possibly no-index won't do because that will block the site from the non-US geography. Hreflang won't work here possibly, because we are not dealing different languages, we are dealing same language (En) but different Geographies.

Canonical might be the best way to go?

Wanted to have an insight from the experts.

Thanks,
Suparno (for Jeff)

Hi David and Tom,
Many thanks for all the details and references and combining my reply. And BTW, I'm Suparno, our agency account is in Jeff's name, anyways.

I thought of hreflang tags, but here is the point. We can force EN-US for US site, but how can we tackle the rest of the world. They won't be willing to go for all (major) country specific pages and tags, because So in practical scenario, it will be example.com for the US and and example.com/ex-us for the rest of the world. So, the question is how do we tackle that .../ex-us home page, which will be an almost duplicate of example.com

LMK your thoughts.

suparno

Thanks Tom for all the insights and details.

suparno