My advice would be to have 1 single site with an option or a forced selection of which country the customer belong to. So give the visitor 2 options -> US or UK and once the visitor selects the country the DB should automatically change the currency. Thanks
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Colin <colinking2@googlemail.com> wrote:
My company, Jigthings Limited, faces a major dilema and I will be
extremely grateful for any advice on what to do. This, my first post
on this forum, is very long but the problem is somewhat complex. I
hope at least someone will have the patience to read through it!
Jigthings sell a unique, specialist range of jigsaw puzzle accessories
directly to consumers via the Internet in both the UK and the USA.
The UK site is at www.jigthings.com and the USA site is at www.puzzleorganizer.com.
We ship daily from our warehouses in both the UK and the USA.
We have had three generations of websites and we are about to start
our fourth - I dearly hope that we get it "More right" this time!
On both our websites the content of the pages is almost identical - we
have explanations of how the accessories work and videos to
demonstrate them. However, in order to give visitors the best
possible experience we believe that weights, measurements and prices
need to be presented differently in the UK to what they are in the
USA. For instance we don't want to encumber our US visitors with
details about sterling costs or metric measurements.
We currently have two entirely different websites - one hosted in the
US and one in the UK albeit both websites are nearly identical except
for weights, measurements and prices. This gives us the following
significant problems
1) We are fearful that Google is penalizing us for Duplicate Content
2) We cannot secure listings in Dmoz for both sites because they are
so similar
3) We have to pay two lots of fees for directory listings, hosting,
security, etc.
4) Our SEO efforts are "Diluted" because we have two sites to contend
with
5) Managing one website is difficult and two is doubly so!
It is crucial to our long-term success that we secure good ranking in
organic searches in both the UK and the USA. Currently most of our
keywords/key phrases rank near the top of Page 1 in the UK but in the
USA we are languishing way down in the 30+ area. Ironically, the USA
is a much more important market to us than the UK and virtually all
our traffic in the USA is being generated by pay-per-click.
We would love to bring-together both websites in one domain - www.jigthings.com
- but the question is how best to do it? Do we create sub-domains for
each country and if we do would we again have Duplicate Content
problems? Do we have server-side scripting (probably .php) that
progamatically serves the correct "Version" of our website according
to where the visitor is located? Or (sum of all fears!) are we best
sticking with our current model of two websites - one for each
country.
I will be eternally grateful for any opinions because until we sort
this fundamental issue we cannot start to build our next generationg
sites. Many thanks.
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