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While we are discussing country level domains and SEO. I found it difficult to purchase the Australian domain .com.au because they ask you to prove your identity and that you must have an IBN number - a registered business in Australia.

So I noticed that both .com and .com.au domains rank well on Australia. So I bought a deprecate .com just for Australia with Australian based hosting. So if you imagine that my primary domains are something like:
livemail.com for USA
livemail.co.uk for UK
maillive.com for Australia

I reversed my words because Australia is down under. That was my thinking. I have hosted servers on every one of those countries.

One of things I forgot to mention is that there is a benefit to me operating in multiple countries - there is a different kind of economies of scale. I don't know how to explain it but there is.

I will just have to accept producing content for more than one site and SEO expense for more than one country. I will just have to accept that. Mostly paid professional writers will be writing anyway with me managing it.

Fingers crossed.

Steve, I already have hosting in the UK and USA. I have 3 separate hosting accounts. So that cost is not an issue. I was going to do exactly what you are saying until yesterday, when the thought of managing 2 or 3 sites seemed from "content point of view" seemed so daunting, that I am beginning to go back to the idea of 1 site. However, I think my original plan, and your comment is right. I will start with 2 instead of 3, a site for UK and USA and see how that goes. I suppose 2 is a good compromise.

Thanks

Hi Indizine, it depends what you mean by being a global company. If servicing multiple countries means that my business is a global company, then the answer would be yes. Otherwise I would say we a small business, maybe even a niche business that has customers based on multiple countries. It all depends on how you view it.

Secondly, I wasn't expecting your answer. So can I ask you to elaborate, why do you think it's a good idea to have multiple domains? What is your main reasoning?

I don't like the thought of producing same or same content 3 times, especially as I am looking to gain to publish content almost on a weekly basis. I also don't like the expenses of SEO times 3, but I can live with that.

I am working on launching a service with the primary target market being: USA, UK and Australia.

From what I understand it is now very difficult rank a site high in multiple countries. So I can't decide if I should have a site for each of those countries, or just one dot com site to cover all the countries. I would the .com .co.uk and one for Australia and so on.

I understand the common arguments, having 3 sites means, maintaining 3 sites, 3 lots of content needing to be published regularly (as I am planning to publish regular content), 3 x SEO expense etc. However, on another level having a site targeted very country specific may make it feel like a "local service". I am not sure what is right. Can you guys think of any companies that have done one or the other in a service industry?

I think I know what most people will say, nevertheless, I want to hear it, and probably need to hear it from other people.

Hello All,

I am thinking or considering setting up an American business. The business I am looking to setup is mainly an online business. So it can be done from almost anywhere. However, I am thinking American businesses and American people would when they look at the company details would generally prefer dealing with an American legal entity than a foreign one.

I would like to hear peoples views and opinions on this. I would also like to hear from anyone who has setup an American business/legal entity and I want to know is it a lot of hassle? Is it expensive to manage and maintain? I am not looking to live in the states. Although I visit from time to time. I currently have no desire to live there.

Thanks.

Am I the only one who finds hiring a good website designer or web developer extremely frustrating? I have in the past found some good ones. But on the whole my experience of trying find a good, reliable, web developer has been extremely frustrating.

I have so much web work at the moment, but I am struggling to find a good developer with either the skills, or is reliable or at the right price.

I know most people are going to say it's down to money. It's not just about money. Paying loads of money doesn't mean you get the best. I have tried the usual PPH, oDesk, eLance. Most of these site are full of time wasters. I was willing to pay top tiers on those sites. But I found the guys charging the highest did not differ that much from those guys charging half the money.

I am becoming resigned to the fact that I need to start learning myself. I have enough knowledge for the standard stuff, but not for the advanced. But I think it's looking like I will need to invest the time and learn. I should not have to...

Can someone please tell me if this is true. I am trying to use Skype for business. So far it has been very frustrating. I have been told that you cannot receive more than one call at a time on Skype even if you have a business account with Skype Manager, and Skype Number etc. The only way is to use Skype Connect which I think connects to a standard VoIP PBX or something.

Please tell me this is not right. I find that really hard to believe that in this day and age on a Skype business account you could not receive more than one call at once like you do with any basic VoIP with any small business.

I do need to know urgently. If anyone knows or uses Skype for calls, can they tell me what you can and cannot do?

Hired someone.

I am launching a new website. It's a very important project to me. I already have the site built. However, I am moving it to wordpress. I was thinking of launching the HTML version now, and when the wordpress version is ready then replace the site with the wordpress. As some of the page extensions will change e.g from abc.com/about.html to abc.com/about etc, is this a bad idea from an SEO point of view. It's not a big site at all. Probably under 10 pages at the moment.

I would like to launch ASAP to start the SEO work as that will take time. I also know websites are continuously evolving, so if I wiat for the wordpress version it may be one thing after another. Or am I stressing over trivial things. Let me know your thoughts or advice.

I recently changed my view. I think the 2 TLD's that matter are dot com's and dot co.uk

I just to a look at a mylocalservices.com since you are targeting US business I think it's essential you have the dot com. I think in the US, the dot com is a must. If the business is making money, then even $2,000 would have probably been worth it my opinion. But that's just an opinion, not a business case.

The most I have ever spent was $1,000 recently. I have bought about 3 or 4 domains in the $300/$400 price mark. Apart from 1, which I have not used, which I will sell, probably get the same money as what I paid for it, the rest I am using or I am going to use. The dot com's being as rare as they are, I think it's the reality of business now that you must be willing to pay a little bit for your good domain, or settle for a rubbish domain.

I bought the domain, not only because they had the words that i wanted, not from a keyword or SEO point of view, but, I think of sites that targets worlwide audience, and I believe most of the world overwhelmingly know dot com, so I could not settle for a net or dot org.