I am re-structuring on eof my sites and am moving the main site .com to a subdomain hosted in the contry where the target language is, and I want to use the .com to as a spash page to ask users what language they want and then sending them to the subdomain of the choosen language/region.
My question is that the .com already has PR and very good google positions for main keywords for the country. How can I move it whitout either losing this already positions or by passing the rankings to the new subdomain? What would be the best approach on this?
Thanks
Pedro
Hi Pedro,
There’s no reason to move the .com. You can still generate language-based traffic when a searcher anywhere searches in the native language. Do not use the Geotargeting feature for the .com, only the subdomain.
Create the subdomain and host THAT in the target country.
Link from your index to your subdomain and a big portion of you PR and other important attributes will be passed immediately onto your subdomain.