: Regional targeting on continent level, same language, 2 domains I have a question concerning regional targeting of a website. I have 2 websites with exactly the same content and both in English

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I have a question concerning regional targeting of a website. I have 2 websites with exactly the same content and both in English (exact copy), but different domains:


abc.example
xwz.example


I would like to redirect visitors from Europe to abc.example and the rest of the visiters to xwz.example.

My approach is to do so by IP detection. Showing a pop up to the user and informing them that they are being redirected to a suitable version for x y reasons.

But the real problem is: What should be the perfect approach to letting the search engines (Google) know that these are 2 versions of the same website and avoid penalties for duplicate content or other penalties?

The rel="alternate" hreflang="" solution would be the best solution if it was on a coutry level, but we want to target whole European countries on one site and the rest of the world on the otherside.

Should we use a canonical tag? How can we tell Google that this version is for Europeans and this other version is for the rest of the world?

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