SEO: Setting Up New Domain & Managing Multiple Stores?

[ccastell88]

Hi Guys,

 

Looking to launch in a new market, currently, we have a .com.au domain which is geo-targeted to Australia.

 

We want to launch in New Zealand which ends with .co.nz 

 

The .com.au is a strong domain with good SEO rankings. 

 

It seems you can create multiple stores with PrestaShop MultiShop feature. Link: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Managing+Multiple+Shops 

 

From my understanding of this setup, it will be just one page in the backend, same content but a redirect will occur based on the users IP address? 

 

If this is the case, this would not be an ideal setup for SEO perspective as it may cause duplicate content issues (as its just one page) and i don't believe I would be able to implement hreflang tag? 

 

I want to prevent duplicate content issues, when we create the .co.nz domain but also have one version of the site to keep managing the site as easy as possible. 

 

Are there any good viable solutions to this? 

 

Any advice/suggestions would be very much appreciated!

 

Cheers,

Chris