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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.
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If your business is based in Canada and markets to Canadian consumers, the . CA domain is the obvious choice. Also register the . COM version of your domain if you are planning to target an international audience or if you're interested in protecting your brand.
A . ca domain is the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for individuals and organizations located in Canada.
If you are looking to serve customers in the USA and further abroad you will most likely want to lean towards the .com TLD. The .com is recognized worldwide. Whether people know . ca stands for Canada or not, they tend to associate this TLD with local services.
It's simple, . CA literally means Canada and when it comes to trust it's hard to beat Canada's international reputation. If your website has a . CA domain, visitors will automatically know you are Canadian, and Canucks tend to stick together.
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.
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