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Originally Posted by Alphamale
and the indexing spiders will just follow the same breadcrumbs will they?
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If you set your DNS so that all queries from US go to server X, and the spider is in the US, then server X will be the one which gets indexed.
Consider a kanji domain (let's call it K) with seperate meanings in chinese and japanese, for example. Set the DNS for K so that surfers/spiders(baidu) with chinese IP will get IP address of "1.2.3.4" when they do a DNS lookup for K. Also set the DNS for K so that surfers/spiders(yahoo.co.jp) with japanese IP will get IP address of "1.2.3.5" when they do a DNS lookup for K. That way, the chinese search engine will index the site on server having IP address of "1.2.3.4", and the japanese search engine will index the site on server having IP address of "1.2.3.5".
I think this is precisely the holy grail which you are looking for. And it doesn't have anything to do with HTTP, it operates purely on the DNS level. That means that the geotargeted IPs also work for other things than web servers, e.g. mail servers, etc.
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