Thanks to both for your responses.

I don't think that search engines shouldn't see this like a manipulative action, but maybe they do and we'll be banned.

Thomas, I couldn't use a GeoDNS because I think that GoogleBot always come from an US IP, so it will only index and rack our US domain. This is the reason for try to identify GoogleBot and don't make the redirect, I Google had a spider with an IP of each country we shouldn't have this problem, but think that this isn't suceed.

We'll use ccTLD for each one, so Webmaster Tools assign the country automatically.

Best regards,

Robert

Hi,

We're thinking in an internationalization process for a travel webpage. We'd like to use one domain (.com) in TV and press marketing and have several domains with each country ccTLD domain.

We've shown that for example Tripadvisor makes a 302 redirect if you connect to tripadvisor.com and you are in another country. But we've detected aswell, that if you use the Browser Agent Google Bot, it didn't.

It appears to be a cloaking, but really they're redirecting the users to the best places for them, and detecting Googlebot for not make the redirect, they ensures that it indexes well all the place. Booking.com makes something similar but with the same domain, detecting if you're Googlebot or not.

Do you think that this is a danger thing if you're not as big as Tripadvisor? They makes this redirection by level server, could be safest to do with javascript? if we do with javascript, Google will take this path instead of read the page?

Thanks!