Greetings from Austria!My Problem: I have an .com-domain I would like to rank in the german, austrian and swiss Google, since those are our target markets. The website itself is in german.From my experience with an .at-domain I found that it is quite hard to rank in a country for which you dont use a cTLD or target it via webmaster-tools.So i had the plan to use WPML (its a Wordpress-Site) to make three versions:.com/de.com/at.com/ch and target each to the respective country via the Webmaster-Tools. How to do that via WPML is clear, but 3 questions arose:If every user is redirected to his subfolder, what happens to thepure .com-domain? Does it then disappear after a while in theSERPs, since every country has its own page?Is it possible to geotarget the pure .com to Austria and /de and /chSubfolders to other countries? Or does geotargeting of a domainoverwrite the targeting of the subfolders?Some people say that its not useful to do this atall. But I did not had the basic idea out of nowhere. On many sites(like Yoast I read that this would be a smart idea to have a sitefor every country). Any ideas on this topic?GreetingsMarkus
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