My client wants country-based domains for their customers. For example, all customers from UK will be taken to the .co.uk
site, even if they visit the .com
site. And same for other countries.
I have used IP redirection for this. Redirection is OK.
Since all non-UK IPs are redirected to .com
site, how will Google index the .co.uk
site?
If I submit a sitemap of .co.uk
and .com
sites to Google and have country-based IP redirection in place, will Google (or any other bot) be able to visit?
My understanding is, Google bots have IPs from USA.
And, .co.uk
and .com
sites have 80 % content same. Will it impact on duplicate content?