Separate IP address for UK and US content

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Separate IP address for UK and US content

southall

11:05 am on Jun 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'm thinking of expanding my UK website into the US, in effect having a duplicate site containing US content for US visitors.

Is is best to put all UK content, currently under example.com, under uk.example.com and all US content under example.com.

Also would it be best to have a UK IP address for uk.example.com and US IP address for example.com ?

[edited by: engine at 11:37 am (utc) on June 2, 2009]
[edit reason] Please use example.com [/edit]

simonuk

11:20 am on Jun 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

Two answers really:

If you have 2 sites which are exact duplicates then you will get penalised no matter where they are hosted.

I would always register and host a domain in the country I'm targeting. Search engines do give much more weight to sites hosted in the location being targeted. In the last month I've moved a clients site for the same reason with very positive results so it still holds true in my experience.

southall

11:29 am on Jun 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

The content within each site will be different, although the category structure may be similar, for example:

example.com/travel
uk.example.com/travel

[edited by: engine at 11:38 am (utc) on June 2, 2009]
[edit reason] Please use example.com [/edit]

simonuk

1:16 pm on Jun 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

As long as you are not duplicating the content (the duplication of HTML and CSS is fine) then you have no problems. Mirroring of sites is a big no-no :)

ebosysindia

2:38 pm on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

It will be better if you have separate IPs for specific countries for promoting site in specific regions.

you can get rankings well with country specific domain hostings.

Regards,

[edited by: tedster at 4:01 am (utc) on Aug. 16, 2009]
[edit reason] no resume signatures, please [/edit]