International Directory thread

[DiggleNamer]

International Directory

I plan to launch a directory of farmers in the UK, US, Canada and Australia.

Initially I thought it would be better to have them all in one directory farmer.com BUT then I was thinking that if I have farmer.co.uk, farmer.us, farmer.ca and farmer.com.au then each directory would do better as each could have local relevant content which would boost its ranking and would appeal more to users since only people in UK would want to search for UK farmers.

But then I was thinking that my generic global farming blog would be relevant to each site.

Thus would the optimum be to have SPECIFIC DIRECTORY/SPECIFIC CONTENT/SHARED BLOG on each site? If so how does the structure work - is there a way to publish the same blog on each site?

 

[barefoottech]

Good idea on the Geo specific Names for each market.

One tiny snag , the .com.au registration could/would be a problem for non-aussie registered company.

 

[DiggleNamer]

anyone else agree that the geo-specific names are a good idea? I have seen some sites advise that splitting is bad, but i think it makes sense for local search?

 

[dbtbandit67]

i suggest keeping things as centralized as possible. simple, no bureaucracy, easier system to manage.

if you actually own farmer.com, i don't get why you wouldn't want to develop that. that's a terrific domain name considering what you're trying to develop. having a .com is better for indexing than those latter options