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What i am interested in knowing is that if :
Site a is regionalised to Australia, www.example.com.au and an Australia IP
Site b is regionalised to New Zealand -www.example.com.au and a New Zealand IP
would both sets of content show in there respective regionalised search?
Eg. would the Australian content appear in a google.com.au search and the new zealand content in a google.co.nz search, even though one is removed from a google.com search?
The motivation is that the content will differ slightly from region to region, i.e. prices, tax and different service / product offerings, freight etc.
Also i have been seening an increase in surfers using the region only search and would like to tap into this.
I am not interested in the ethics of this practice (as I believe my methodology is morally sound)
but more interested in if google will remove one from the index for regional searches.
There must be a few here who have such a set up?
My guess is that google does an initial 'worldwide' results page which removes duplicate content, whatever the ip or domain ending. Then they filter out to a regional results page and apply hilltop etc.
This would be the simpliest way (I think) and they have to keep things simple!
Has anyone tested for this?
