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country specific sites - 301 or robots.txt?

multiple sites simular content

         

racine

9:33 pm on Apr 7, 2005 (gmt 0)



We have several domains for example ourdomain.com and ourdomain.ca

Both sites are unique in apearence (different graphics and home pages etc) and the product is displayed in US and Candian currency depending on the site. But a lot of the 'content' is really the same in a different wrapper. Both sites use the same code from the same physical directory on the server, and simply dynamicly changes the graphics/pricing depending on the URL the user is on. (home pages are completley unique)

As this is/can be a issue of splitting our PR between two sites, I do not want to have the .ca site indexed. So the only site shown will be the .com

So the question is, do i do a 301 redirect of the .ca to the .com and rewrite some code to allow the user to select his/her currency or would it be better to copy the core code into two different directories, one fot the .com and one for the .ca and simply use a robots.txt file to no index no follow the .ca site?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in Advance!