Monday, April 20, 2009

Geo Targeting - Different Aspects of Google & Yahoo

To locally target language content across various domains, Yahoo does not filter the duplicate content out of their results when the same content is found on multiple ccTLD domains. In the same way Google engine also behaves, to have the same content on for example, seo-firm-delhi.com, seo-firm-delhi.co.uk and seo-firm-delhi.com.au is perfectly acceptable and shouldn't trigger removal for duplicate content (assuming those sites are properly targeting their individual geographic regions). Exceptions are the potentially spammy or manipulative sites. The use of content across shared-language domains in this fashion is perfectly acceptable.

However, to redirect the alias site, the following code can be used. Write this code in ".htaccess file". Code is given below-

" Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^seo-firm-delhi.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.seo-firm-delhi.com/$1 [r=301,nc] "
 
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