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Hi Nigel,

Thanks for this, the good news is we do already have all the local sites in subfolders and we do already use href lang tags (sorry, probably should have added this to the question).

Unfortuantely we lack the resources internally to manage content locally which is why this new approach has been suggested (and I'm not a fan of it), I suspect the search engines wont like it either.  I just need some ammunition to take back to the team to argue for an alternative.

This is helpful though, thank you!

Vicky

Hi,

We have  'local' websites for different countries (UK, DE, FR, AP, US etc.) and a corporate website, the local websites are going to be linking back to the corporate website in the main menu (think about us, terms and conditions kind of pages). Any local products will have their own pages on the local website but global products will be linked back to the corporate website.

We will be placing an indication the user will be going to another website next to those menu links that go to the corporate website.

Is there any drawback to this for SEO?  Should we use nofollow in the menu structure of regional websites for these links?

Thanks for your help.