: Redirect based on country Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.: www.example.com/us www.example.com/uk www.example.com/ca and I want to use IP geolocation
Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:
example.com/us www.example.com/uk example.com/ca
and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go to example.com to the appropriate country version of the site. What is the best way to do that without confusing crawlers such as Googlebot or running into other SEO type trouble?
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Google Webmaster Central has a great blog post discussing this topic: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html
Since your site appears to serve country-specific information at different URLs, you could provide a sitemap to help search engines discover them all. Just make sure you don't block access to any countries due to the assumptions you make based on IP. Always give the user (or in this case, Web crawler) the option to choose a different country.
You will run into SEO issues because crawler IPs will likely get detected as being from US and won't be able to see the other parts of the website, unless they're linked to somewhere on your website, in which case they will be indexed.
Another idea to consider would be offering a world map or something similar, and letting the user choose for himself and remember his choice through a cookie?
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