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Question

multi region website

Dec 13, 2013 2:13AM PST

Hi, I am creating a website which will be targeted at various countries and each country will have it's own domain name, however all content apart from pricing etc. will be the same. Will this look bad to search engines or will the fact that they all have different domains be okay?
thanks

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Good question
Dec 15, 2013 2:03AM PST

But since all folk I encounter only worry about Google's search engine your use of the plural term is interesting.

-> Why not focus on your company, product and service and they will come?
Bob

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If it's going to be exactly the same site
Dec 16, 2013 3:27PM PST

you should probably use one domain name and redirect the rest. If you will have different content or even use a different language, you can use multiple domain names. In your case, you can have one site with one domain, the other domains redirects, and then maybe a language toggle on the pricing page.

~Sovereign

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No need of different domains
Jan 8, 2014 2:40PM PST

You can create one single website and give sub domains for the other countries by giving all the details according to the country. If you create multiple websites optimizing them and making it reach the people you targeted is a bit difficult.