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We have an old, well ranking domain in a news niche.
I deliver content in three languages, english pages have URLs in the "root" path while other languages are in classic /de/ /fr/ folders. A "classic" situation.
The homepage root url has PR6.
The other language's homepage have PR5.
We all know that using language specific TLD is a good SEO tip. Sometime ago, we have been able to register the corresponding language's specific TLDs.
Until now, we didn't move any page, and only set up 301s so that www.sitename.fr redirects to www.sitename.com/fr/
We aren't planning any "global" move of each language soon - many articles have very good backlinks, and even though I am quite experienced with moving content from a domain to the other, we don't want to get though this right now and take any possible risk.
My specific question is about our portuguese edition, which we recently decided to target especially to the Brazilian audience.
Since the portuguese pages don't have a great number of visitors, and as I said we would like to target our brazilian audience, I am considering to start to use our .br domain, moving there the whole portuguese edition with page-specific 301s so that no duplicate content are issued and PR is carried.
We are also considering to move just the homepage and start publishing new articles on the .br domain, and leave the old pages where they are.
Do you think it might be a smart move in our specific situation? I'd really love to hear the experience of who has experienced a similar situation - we might have also a technical benefit, being able to update our CMS and clean a bit the whole thing.
Thank you for your attention!
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