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Using bolt-on ecommerce sites

  • 27-07-2011 5:15pm
    #1
    paulbok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,966 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I've a few questions on how adding an ecommerce site to a business website is treated by search engines?

    Will a .co.uk url rank lower in Ireland?

    An example is an Irish company called johnsmith.ie
    He buys an ecommerce addon that has the address www.mywebsales.co.uk/johnsmith (hosted in the UK)and puts a link from his site to this.

    How do search engines react to this setup?
    How do search engines react if he uses frame forwarding to mask the .co.uk url with his own domain name?

    If the addon was www.mywebsales.ie/johnsmith would it rank better?

    Thanks for any answers you may have.


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  • #2
    blue4ever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    paulbok wrote: »
    Hi,

    I've a few questions on how adding an ecommerce site to a business website is treated by search engines?

    Will a .co.uk url rank lower in Ireland?

    An example is an Irish company called johnsmith.ie
    He buys an ecommerce addon that has the address www.mywebsales.co.uk/johnsmith (hosted in the UK)and puts a link from his site to this.

    How do search engines react to this setup?
    How do search engines react if he uses frame forwarding to mask the .co.uk url with his own domain name?

    If the addon was www.mywebsales.ie/johnsmith would it rank better?

    Thanks for any answers you may have.

    Leaving aside the ecomm - in the greater scheme of things, searching on google.ie will, all things being equal throw up .ie domains in the main (naturally there are plenty of exceptions to that, but for another time). If you want a site, thats not using a TLD for a target county (ex: .ie targeting UK) you will have to specify the target country in your webmaster tools. Your IP, bsuines address, hosting may be taken into account.

    In the case where you are going to have a company do all the ecomm then you would hope that that portion is the 'last mile' and that the .ie site has done its work in terms of seo. If you're punters are redirected to the ecom site then its a different site and is only linked to yours at its most simplest).

    Would you not consider some of the free ecomm solutions (zen cart) and avoid all that?


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