IP redirects
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My website, on a .com domain, displays a different language/content depending on the IP of the user. For example, if someone is browsing my web from Spain, it will show the spanish content, and so on. Does anyone has an idea on how will Google index my pages? Their servers being located in the US, I assume the bot will only crawl and index the english content. How can I tell the bots to do the same for the other languages/content?
Thanks!
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Hi Alessia,
what i would try to figure out is how my website is ranking in different search engines and go on from there. So let's say you use RankChecker to check your rankings. So check google.es, google.com google.nl for dutch etc.
Type in the keywords in its own language and hit search and watch the results come back. There is a pretty good change that your website is ranking for each language if the website is programmed correctly.
If your site is not scoring for the foreign keywords you might just want to go ahead with the answer from Ryan and seperate the websites without the script of language (browser or IP based).
hopes this helps a bit.
Jarno
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Hi Alessia
This post is all about International SEO : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-dropping-the-information-dust
Hope this will helps you...
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You are right Donford, it's even more complicated : the configuration (products/prices shown) change depending on the IP, and the language changes based on the browser language...
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Hi Alessia are you sure the content is IP based and not browser language specific? We had a German intern here who was often served different website versions even though she was using our ISP simply because her computer was setup in Germany and with Germanic software (browsers). Just something else to look at, hope it helps.
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In my experience, IP based content is problematic for several reasons. I would suggest redirecting to pages designed for each language. A few examples:
Depending on a variety of factors, one of the above solutions is likely the optimal one for your situation.
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