Redirecting Domain will cause SEO?

[anishtapan]

I am redirecting my domain, based on Geo Location. For example : if someone browse from india www.example.com they will redirect to www.example.in Does redirecting domain on Geo based will cause SEO or Any kind of duplicate content issue, as i am using same content on both TLDs.

[ske11]

Hi

Tom is right about the duplicate content issues.

The other option is to make the 2 sites into 1, with the different language and cultural options available on each page, so someone can click a link and see the English or Indian version.

This would make promotion easier as you would just need to focus on 1 site.

I hope this helps

Sean

[TomRayner]

So it sounds like (correct me if I'm wrong) that when a user from India lands on your site, they're given a geo cookie and sent to the .in domain.  Therefore, the .com domain can still be visited by people in other regions?

In this case, you're definitely going to have a duplicate content issue.  If it was a permanent 301 redirect for all users, you would not as Google wouldn't be able to crawl the .com site.  But if it's only a few based on geo location, Google is going to be able to crawl both the .com and .in and there's a good chance it will flag it for duplicate content.

Two things you can do - attach rel="canonical" tags to both domains and make one of the domains' content point to the others.  For example, if you wanted to rank the .com site as a priority, put canonicals like to the .in site.

What I'd strongly recommend, however, would be to rewrite one of the sites and get unique content.  It may take time, but you remove any risk of being flagged for duplicate content while giving your sites a better chance of both ranking.