Is there any disadvantage (in SEO terms) to using a country-specific subdomain over the country's TLD?

From the SEO point of view, it is always better to do domainname. Com/fr Why? Because all the links to domainname.Com/uk and domainname.

Com/fr are added to the same PageRank. If you have individual domains, the links are diluted between domains What Richie says is not right, because you can tell Google the specific geo target using Google WebMasters Tools Here is an example, searching only sites "from argentina" (.ar TLD) where the top result is a generic .com.

From the SEO point of view, it is always better to do domainname. Com/fr Why? Because all the links to domainname.Com/uk and domainname.

Com/fr are added to the same PageRank. If you have individual domains, the links are diluted between domains. What Richie says is not right, because you can tell Google the specific geo target using Google WebMasters Tools Here is an example, searching only sites "from argentina" (.ar TLD) where the top result is a generic .com.

A country-specific search engine like google.co. Uk will understand that domainname.co. Uk is a UK site, but it won't understand that about uk.domainnname.com.

If I select google.co. Uk's pages from the UK option I'd expect to see the former but not the latter. (Edit: Yes, you can configure this for Google and some other search engines, but there's more to SEO than one or two specific search engines.).

You can set the geographic target of the site using Google Webmaster tools – Eduardo Molteni Oct 13 '09 at 13:02 @Eduardo Molteni: Google is not the only search engine in the world. – Richiendle Apr 7 at 14:15 Richie: Really? ;) – Eduardo Molteni Apr 7 at 17:49.

Because all the links to domainname.com/uk and domainname.com/fr" rel="nofollow">domainname.com/fr are added to the same PageRank. If you have individual domains, the links are diluted between domains.

A country-specific search engine like google.co.uk will understand that domainname.co.uk is a UK site, but it won't understand that about uk.domainnname.com.

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