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Multiple country domains pointing to single website?

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  • 06-06-2017 3:41pm
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    dahayeser
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    I have a client looking to setup a website to sell products into a number of European countries? He wants to purchase the domains for a number of countries .co.uk, .ie, .de, .fr etc. The client's reason for this is to close them off to rivals rather than set up individual websites.

    Is there a duplicate content issue with pointing all the domains a single website site (the clients preference)?

    I would imagine a dedicated site hosted in each region would be the best option from an SEO prospective but that increases hosting and maintenance costs.


    Wordpress / Woocommerce would be my technology. This is new ground for me so I would appreciate any advice posters may have.

    Thanks in advance,
    Sean
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    Graham
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    dahayeser wrote: »
    Is there a duplicate content issue with pointing all the domains a single website site (the clients preference)?

    Are you planning to redirect all the cc TLDs to one domain or have the same content show on each of the domains?

    The latter is likely to cause duplicate content issues as the same content would show for multiple sites unless you get into hreflang tagging.


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    dahayeser
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    The clients preference would be to host on a .com and have .ie, .fr etc point to that .com. That is definite is definitely the simplest option.

    Pretty much the same site hosted in multiple regions with hreflang tagging is the alternative option I was thinking about. If the tagging prevents duplicate content issues I am guessing this is a better SEO option. Seems a bit cumbersome though.

    I'm not sure what exactly to recommend.


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    Graham
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    dahayeser wrote: »
    The clients preference would be to host on a .com and have .ie, .fr etc point to that .com. That is definite is definitely the simplest option.

    Absolutely the simplest option
    dahayeser wrote: »
    Pretty much the same site hosted in multiple regions with hreflang tagging is the alternative option I was thinking about. If the tagging prevents duplicate content issues I am guessing this is a better SEO option. Seems a bit cumbersome though.

    It is cumbersome. I've just done it for a Magento site, for fun-factor it's right up there with a root-canal. Get it wrong (even temporarily) and you could find one or more of your sites drops into oblivion.

    The tagging should prevent duplicate content penalties as you're essentially telling Google each duplicate targets a separate market/geo-location.

    You'd certainly want to be sure there's a plugin to help. With Magento you have the option of multiple store-fronts with an appropriate extension, I'm not sure if there's a Woocommerce equivalent.


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    irishd
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    Graham wrote: »
    You'd certainly want to be sure there's a plugin to help. With Magento you have the option of multiple store-fronts with an appropriate extension, I'm not sure if there's a Woocommerce equivalent.

    This might be worth a look ... https://woomultistore.com/


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    daymobrew
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    A client of mine has a multilingual store using WooCommerce, Polylang and Woo Poly Integration


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