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One of my priorities at the moment is to increase the number and quality of web links to our international .com web site. This is primarily a doorway to our regional sites, including .us, which is maintained by our US distributor (we are a UK company). At the moment our US links in particular are diluted, because some point to pages on teh .com site and some to .us. I want all of them to point to .com - but some of them need to direct visitors to specific pages on .us. I can think of several possible ways of achieving this:
1) Create a host us.****.com that redirects either visibly or invisibly through the DNS to .us
2) Use a bounce page (I don't like this idea!)
3) Use a 303 redirect
4) Merge the two sites and have .us and .com both pointing to the same place. But this would create two domains with identical content.
5) Merge the two sites and have .us pointing to .com, but not the home page
I would appreciate any advice on whether centralising our links is a wise strategy overall, and which approach would be best from a SEO point of view.
Thanks in advance.
Bruce Townsend
regarding Googles advice, you should use the 301 (permanent) redirect.
Here you can find some additional informations:
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(4. I'm changing my URL. How can I maintain my rank?)
I hope this helps.
Barn
