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Hello everybody,

We are planning to have a new website soon, which will be an E-Commerce website for people from the US, and non E-Commerce website for people from other countries.

In other words, in the poduct pages, we would like to have the price of the product shown to the users from the US, and on the other hand we would like it to be invisible for users outside of the US. We thought about setting the html elelment of the price to be visible only for US users (by ip).

My question is - can Google crawler see this as potential cloacking, since we hide some of the content to some of the users (while google might scan it from US iip address)?

Thanks in advance...

Thanks Dana. Honestly, we have a lot of experience dealing with site migrations - I read dozens of posts and we've implemented our own step-by=step guidelines for successful site migration.

As you can see, sometimes even when you do everything by the book you can encounter some unexpected issues.

Yes I have. I could see the 301 redirects correctly and without any further issues.

Hi David,

see my answer to RaymondPP.

Also, what do you mean by saying "you are linking out to your other site"?

Did you see anything?

There is a perfect correlation between the organic drop and the revenue – It has decreased dramatically. Of course I checked for Analytics issue but all the other traffic sources have stayed the same. We have big PPC campaigns and the traffic data is correct.

About management of expectations – usually we say that we expect 3-4 months of traffic droppings, but this had taken us a bit by surprise.

Thanks for the answer.

That's always a possibility - the problem is that these url's have not too few links (the old homepage is still indexed!).

If I'll use the url remover won't this result in losing all the link juice for those url's?

Hi all,

Believe me. I think I've already tried and googled for every possible question that I have. This one is very frustrating – I have the following old domain – fancydiamonds dot net.

We built a new site – Leibish dot com and done everything by the book:

1. Individual 301 redirects for all the pages.
2. Change of address via the GWT.
3. Trying to maintain and improve the old optimization and hierarchy.

4 months after the site migration – we still have to gain back more than 50% of our original organic traffic (17,000 vs. 35,500-50,000

The thing that strikes me the most that you can still find 2400 indexed pages on Google (they all have 301 redirects).

And more than this – if you'll search for the old domain name on Google – fancydiamonds dot net you'll find the old domain!

Something is not right here, but  I have no explanation why these pages still exist.

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!

Thank you for your answer Martijn.

The problem is, the second website is not for French users specifically - it is a global website targeted to all users outside of the US. If there is no specific country, I'm afraid i won't be able to use the rel="alternate" annotation.

Hi all,

My client has a new E-commerce site coming out in few months.
His requirement is to use the same domain (lets call it www.domain.com for now) for two seperate websites:
The first site, for users with ip addresses from USA - which will include prices in US dollars.
The second site - for users outside of the US - will not include any prices, and will have different pages and design.

Now, lets say that googlebot crawls the websites from different ip ranges. How can i make sure a user from France, for example, won't see crawled pages from the US? Sure, once he will click the result, I can redirect him to a "Sorry, but this content is unavailable in your country" page. The problem is, I don't want a user from France to see the in the search results the meta description snippets of pages related only to users in the US (in some cases, the snippets may include the prices in $).
Is Geotargeting through Webmaster Tools can help in this case? I know I can target a part of the website for a specific country (e.g. - www.domain.com/us/), but how can I make sure global users won't see the pages targeted only to the US in the search results?

Thanks in Advance

There is a perfect correlation between the organic drop and the revenue – It has decreased dramatically. Of course I checked for Analytics issue but all the other traffic sources have stayed the same. We have big PPC campaigns and the traffic data is correct.

About management of expectations – usually we say that we expect 3-4 months of traffic droppings, but this had taken us a bit by surprise.