InterWebUK Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 We have our hosting business running at interweb****.co.uk and our billing system at interweb****/billing.co.uk which is fine for UK customers but not for US and Europe customers. We also own interweb****.net and interweb****.eu Anyone got ideas on how to best use the domains so that US customers do not get put off going to co.uk etc, also any ideas on how to change pricing and some css based price images by user country, or am I best setting up 3 different hosting accounts and changing prices manually on each? I would then have to reissue license for WHMCS to be on .net domain as that is global, what do you all think and how do you have all your domains setup so that you can cover a global audience and also getting listed on each countries search engines. Thanks J 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 serveralias them all so they're interchangeable, leave the "real" location a global domain (like the .net) for simplicity 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netearth Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Rob took the words out of my mouth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterWebUK Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 So, are you saying best way is to have the .net located on a US server and .co.uk hosted on UK server or not? Just know some people from US would be put off coming to .net site, but showing as hosted in UK, like with firefox flag plug in, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 So, are you saying best way is to have the .net located on a US server and .co.uk hosted on UK server or not? Just know some people from US would be put off coming to .net site, but showing as hosted in UK, like with firefox flag plug in, As Rob said, serveralias them - so they all show the same content and use a neutral domain such as the .net as your 'master' one. (Or if using cPanel, park them) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterWebUK Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 Yes, but doing it that way will make showing different content hard, like different pricing, different language, we thought we would the best way was to host .net in the US, .co.uk in the UK, and .eu in Germany, we then run our billing system from the .net until Matt releases multi-currency. Sound ok? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 OK true - unless you can code in PHP and use session data to show the correct currency etc? We do this, if someone goes to our site at the .us address, we show all prices in USD, for .ie and .eu we show € and for .net and .uk, we show £. However, the URL is always shown as .net (with the currency choice stored in a session) The only thing you will want to consider is if you run three sites, with the same content (bar the price), google may identify it as duplicate content and could remove you from their index completely. Just something to think about. A large, well known ISP fell foul of this some time ago because each of their vISP brands used the same content - just a different brand name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterWebUK Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Yes we can code php and have thought about it, just quite time consuming when we are building sites for others and running the hosting. We have also thought about google thinking duplicate content, although some would be customised to each location, Do your uk customers mind going to US location or european customers mind going to US? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Do your uk customers mind going to US location or european customers mind going to US? Not sure what you mean by that. Generally, 98% of our customers goto the .net - as that is what they know. Some to the .uk, and few to the .us/.ie/.eu. I am not sure why UK/EU customers would type in the .us domain? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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