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We have 3 verions of our ecommerce site. The www.domain.com is our main website serving US customers. Our www.domain.ca is basically the same site in CAD for the Canadian market. We also have espanol.domain.com for Latin American customers.
Our issue is that Google only returns our .com links for our main keywords both on google.ca and google.com.mx.
Woud it be a good idea to implement a server side redirect based on the URL of the referring page. For instance, if a vistor click on an organic search link from www.google.ca that points to www.domain.com/page.html , we would redirect it to www.domain.ca/page.hml?
It sounds like it could work. I'm wondering if it could maybe cause some issue with Search Engine crawlers, although I dont don't see how technically this could afect googlebot for instance.
What are your thoughts?
Lothaire
From the other side, some people do not like forced redirects. Don't make them think(c) why link showed .com and they were taken to .ca. What if they were looking exactly for .com, and not .ca?
I'd implemented a banner saying "Are you from Canada?" Visit our Canadian store!" based on referer's URL -- looks like you 1) are big and 2) caring about your customers :-)
[edited by: Morgenhund at 2:53 pm (utc) on Aug. 2, 2007]
