Redirecting international domains to .com domain?

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Over the years, I've collected international domains. Instead of just having myshop.com, I also have myshop.co.uk and myshop.ca and myshop.au allowing me to target canada, united kingdom and australia specific search engine directories.

I'm finding that it's hard to maintain each one of these websites, pay ssl fees and processing fees and I want to just work on my .com site and make it a global site.

What I've done is create, for instance, myshop.com/au which is all about australia products with content and keywords specific to australia. I then went to Godaddy and did a 301 redirect from myshop.au to myshop.com/au. Is this the correct way to handle this?

[aakk9999]

I then went to Godaddy and did a 301 redirect from myshop.au to myshop.com/au. Is this the correct way to handle this?

It is - providing that you have redirected URLs page-to-page rather than sending everything from any page that exists in myshop.au to the root folder of myshop.com/au.

I do not know how far you got with your redirects, but I would do only one site (lets say Australian) and then watch the results before doing the same with Canada and UK.

If you have the same product sold in US, Canada, Australia and UK, which I presume results in 4 almost the same pages with some localisation (e.g. price and currency) then you can also utilise rel alternate on these pages to say that the same page exists in English and targets a different country. You can find more details here:

Use hreflang for language and regional URLs
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en [support.google.com]