: Multi-country redirection where US is not the main site and it's SEO implications We run a custom built e-commerce platform. We started in Canada and our main site was thus built to serve canadian

@Alves908

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We run a custom built e-commerce platform. We started in Canada and our main site was thus built to serve canadian buyers. When we expanded into the US, we added a /us sub-folder as an identifier. We need to serve different websites because prices and products are different across the two countries. We also set up GeoIP redirection - so visitors are automatically redirected to the appropriate site - i.e our-site.com for Canadians, and our-site.com/us/ for Americans. This seemingly is having negative results on our SEO. We have the following setup: Two webmaster properties

our-site.com for which the country selection in webmaster is
Canada our-site.com/us for which the country selections is USA


We are serving them different sitemaps with the appropriate HREFLANG attributes. We also had hreflang set up on the site (but recently removed because you aren't supposed to do both the sitemap and meta hreflang at the same time)

The issue we are seeing is that some of our major pages we are trying to rank for in Canada are showing the US version of the link on google.

My questions are the following:


What is the best practice for redirection and URL setup if default
country is not US. This is specifically an issue because the
Googlebot uses a US IP
How can I ensure US links don't show up on Canadian search results

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