This means they do not share any of the benefits of inbound links

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Subfolder (See meta content below for explanation en-gb) Great option for an already well established website that is looking to expand into new international markets. Pros: All links to any version of the site help boost the domain. It's a rising tide raises all boats situation. Less prone to linking mistakes as this format follows the standard website convention www.


Example.com. Cons: In my experience, this option has telemarketing leads, israel telephone number data not performed as well in country specific search engines. Potentially confusing for users looking for a ccTLD (ex. .co.uk) version of the site. Not able to have different country sites hosted from different country specific servers with proper IP addresses. Other Considerations: Google Webmaster Tools: Google provides a service for making the problem of internationalization a little less nasty. If you sign up for and verify your website with Google Webmaster Tools, you have the option of geotargeting your website.


See below: This won't work for all ccTLDs but if your country is available, changing this setting will help your efforts. Keep it mind though, that like most things in SEO, this is only a hint to the search engines and will not negate the necessity for normal internationalization efforts. Language: Language is a extremely important hint to the engines about how and where to rank content. Quite frequently this is done poorly with similar languages (US English vs UK English) and results in duplicate content problems.