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Possibly, but I would ask a developer if they can set up a redirect for the IP address so you wouldn't have to handle this through a plugin as it seems that you want to redirect the whole thing.

Intriguing title to this question!   You hooked me. Important question: if your client has an online-only business, why does he have citations? Structured citations are normally restricted to local businesses that make in-person contact with consumers. Does your client interact face-to-face with his customers? If so, failure to correct citations is about the worst mistake he could be making in terms of reputation, rankings and revenue. But, if your client's business model is virtual, he shouldn't really be creating local business listings and ought to get rid of them - especially any Google My Business listings as they would actually be a violation of Google's guidelines. However, if he has accrued non-structured mentions of his business (for example, social mentions, newspaper articles, blog posts, etc.) and they contain misinformation, the risk of neglecting this is that he is losing customers. If I'm correct in understanding that your client's business is virtual, I'd advise him to: Get rid of all local business listings on the major local business data platforms Make the effort to correct unstructured citations, unless he can afford to lose customers. I'd give it the 'old college try' to make the client understand his profits are at being put at stake due to misinformation being published about his company and outline a sensible plan for addressing the issue (based on whether his business is truly local or virtual). Then, if the client wouldn't hear this, I'd let him go. In fact, I wouldn't serve a client who felt that bad data about his company could be neglected. I'd be foiled at every turn in trying to market his business and see progress. His attitude would be setting us both up for failure. Hope this helps, and good luck!

No problem. Your best bet would be to avoid subdomains and have separate entities via ccTLD as you've mentioned is the plan. You could do a sub-directory structure (.com/au, .com/us, etc..) but honestly that gets pretty messy. I've got a client that has some countries on different ccTLDs and some that share a TLD, and the ones that share the .com are the messy ones.

Thanks Sean, It's a Shopify site, so I don't think the dev has access to server logs. I think the alternative approach might work though. I'm not sure if they have a URL export, but if they do I'll suggest they use the list function. Thx again.

Another option is if the site uses a CMS. If so, then you can create a sitemap for content pages/posts etc,. Personally, I'm with Krzysztof Furtak  on SF. Screaming Frog rocks. It'll find most pages, except perhaps Orphan pages as it wouldn't be able to find a link to crawl to discover the page. If it's really important to get as many pages as possible, I'd do the following (I've put an Astrix (*) next to ones that some people may think are a tad extreme) Run a Screaming Frog crawl Grab a sitemap from your CMS Check any server-based analytics (AWSTATS etc) Check your access_log file & parse out URLs in there**(*)** site: queries, with & without www, and also using * as a subdomain (use something like Moz's toolbar to export) As Krzysztof suggests, Scrapebox would extract data too, but be careful scraping, you may get an IP slap.(*) Export crawl data from Moz & a tool such as Deep Crawl Throw the pages from all into Excel and de-dupe. Once you have a de-duped list, as an optional last step, go back to Screaming Frog and enter list mode (I have the paid version, not sure if it's possible with the free one) and run a crawl over all the de-duped URLs to get status codes etc If you're going to do this sort of thing a fair bit - buy a Screaming Frog license, it's an awesome tool and can be useful in a multitude of situations.