Andrew Kulakov
Andrew Kulakov

Reputation: 2092

Subdomains as a hosting server and SEO

We have a website site.com and want to give faster access to that site to users from other countries. Idea is to have a hosting in each continent and redirect to that hosting by GeoIP such as: eu.site.com - Europe, us.site.com - North America, au.site.com - Australia, etc. Each of that sites will have exactly the same content and files, so eu.site.com/fr will display exactly the same content as au.site.com/fr

Question is how it will affect Page Ranking and SEO in general.

site.fr, site.au, site.uk - too difficult to manage, so it's not acceptable.

fr.site.com, au.site.com, uk.site.com - the same problem.

Thanks for help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (1)

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219804

This is duplicate content and considered low quality by Google. This is the kind of content the Panda algorithm is weeding out of their search results. What you need to do is pick a primary domain to be shown in Google's search results and then use canonical URLs for the rest of the websites. Then after the visitor has visited that main website you can detect their location and redirect them to their local site.

Upvotes: 1

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