302 redirection from .com to .in. Google is indexing both urls
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Hello Fellow members,
I am sharing the problem what I am facing from client which is another division of my company ( taking as a client). Please recommend me a full proof solution.
My client runs a fashion e-commerce site by .com domain in India but after 2 years they took decision that in India, only .in domain site would run with INR prices & outside in "$" prices.
Now when If someone is searching with .com domain in India site is 302 redirecting into the .in domain.
In India only .in site is working & outside .com but Google is indexing pages of both sites. With .com domain 5 lakhs + pages are indexed & from .in domain only 2600 pages.
Content of both sites almost 95% same. I already recommended to put rel=canonical tag on both sites but this is not the permanent solution.
They have started .in domain to show prices in "$" & "INR" only. Can you recommend me the best possible answer to solve this issue.
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So it sounds as though you have:
- A ".in" site for users in India, and
- A ".com" site for users outside of India.
And that almost all of their content is the same. For this, you need to implement hreflang tags. You can read the Moz guide on hreflang tags here. For each on the ".in" site, find the similar page on the ".com" site, and then add hreflang tags to both. As an example, if I had the following two pages:
These two pages have the same content and are both in English. I would add the following hreflang tags to both of them:
Notice that the second link there has only a language code - not a country code. The ".com" domain is targeted at users speaking English, whereas the ".in" domain targets English-speakers in India. If you need to add more languages, you should try generating some hreflang tags with Aleyda Solis's hreflang tag generator tool.
Finally, if you want to check that you have implemented hreflang correctly, Distilled has released a tool at hreflang.ninja.
If you implement hreflang correctly, Google search results in India will begin to show the ".in" domain. You can then remove the 302 redirect.
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But Company wants to run both domains only to show prices in $ as well as in INR. What to do in this case?✓ Email Updates
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Have you considered going into Webmaster tools and clicking on change of address for the previous domain. This way Google knows what is going on and will focus on the new domain.
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