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http://www.example.co.uk - English
http://es.example.co.uk - Spanish
http://it.example.co.uk - Italian
http://fr.example.co.uk - French
http://de.example.co.uk - German
They have now managed to aquire the company domain names in the respective country -
http://www.example.it - Italian
etc...
They want everything transferred over to the localised TLD's.
My questions are -
a) What is the best way of doing this without duplicating content / being penalised ... etc. The site is in ASP and hosted on Windows server.
b) The company currently does not have anything in Google under the "Pages From [country]" for the respective languages, although they have a very good presence for everything else. I assume that once the sites have been moved over to the new domains and submitted using Google Webmaster tools, under Set geographic target, things will hopefully start to pick up.
c) How much of an advantage for SEO is it to host the sites in the countries of the domain names ?
Thanks
[edited by: tedster at 7:55 am (utc) on Nov. 12, 2008]
[edit reason] switch domain to 'example' and de-link [/edit]
1. Make sure each subdomain is set up as a "website" in Internet Services Manager
2. In the Home Directory tab, change the option button "When connecting to this resource the content should come from" to be "A redirection to a URL".
3. Specify the URL as [it.example.co.uk...]
($S retains the requested URL's full filepath and $Q retains any query string present in the request.)
4. Check the checkbox that says "A permanent redirection for this resource." Otherwise you get a 302 redirect, not a 301
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You're correct, the cctld is usually all you need to begin showing up under "pages from [country]" - iwhen you have that going for you, local hosting is seldom needed in addition.
