Prioritisation of products with GEO-IP?

and the effect on SERPS...

[Simsi]

Hi guys

I have been reearching using GeoIP to prioritise products depending on the visitors region. I know that if I had seperate products lists relevant to a country, then a redirection to a subdomain would be more apt, but in this case all the products are relevant to most countries and that would in effect put me in dupe-content territory.

So what I want to do is prioritise the order the products appear on my main domain. bearing in mind I have 5 products per page, this means that users from the UK would see a different set of products on the index page to visitors from the USA, however once they are past the Top 10 products, the results would be similar.

Incidentally, I have tried having the same index page content and links for visitors to pick their country, but the take-up on that despite being fairly obvious was at best, in the minority.

Does Google see this as "cloaking" or am I safe to do this without any SERPS fallout do you think?

Cheers

Simsi

[Simsi]

Just to clarify, the index page will show 5 different products depending on the user's country. Subsequent pages will not differ.

Cheers

Simmo!

[M_Bison]

you should be fine as google classifies cloaking as presenting different sets of information to search engines and people, not different set of information on a country to country basis.

FYI, I have an link to an affiliate page at the top if a visitor is from the North America or Europe and I am seeing no penalties.

[Simsi]

Thanks MB. Thats good to know.