SEO: .ca or .com for a Canadian international website [closed]

Question

I have both .ca and .com domains of my website. The website is meant for international audience, but it is important to be associated with Canada though. (the website is about Canadian immigration)

So the question is should I use .ca domain and 301 redirect .com visitors to .ca or vice versa and why?

In other words would it be harder to rank higher internationally with .ca domain?

I suppose it doesn't really matter which one you promote and do link building with.

Answer 1

So the question is should I use .ca domain and 301 redirect .com visitors to .ca or vice versa and why?

It's the same thing, depends on audience targeting. If you are targeting the outside from Canada, then .com is prefered. It's common logic. If you are targeting my country (Croatia) it would be prefered / good to put .hr domain up.

In other words would it be harder to rank higher internationally with .ca domain?

Well, this is a tricky part. It depends on amount of SEO effort that you are going to put on page this page. But yes, it's true. It would be harder to rank higher with .ca domain.

I suppose it doesn't really matter which one you promote and do link building with.

It's true, it doesn't really matter which one you promote and do link building with, however... if your site is going for international audience, then .com is prefered. But, it's ok to use 301 redirect to your .com domain.