Optimising different site areas for different countries

[Razzle]

Hello!

I'm currently dealing with a website that aims to have different areas of the site rank well in different countries. It's a recruitment site, so it needs to display different jobs for say Australia and the UK.

Am I right in thinking that we would have a hard time making the search engines understand the different country divide in the site, and that the best solution is an individual domain hosted in the correct country for each one? Or is there a simpler solution for ensuring that each Google searcher ends up in the correct section without needing this fiddly solution?

Thanks,

Razzle

[Jeremy80]

Have you considered using a separate subdomain for each country? The search engines treat each subdomain essentially as a separate website. You could even setup an automatic redirection based on your ip....that way people would end up directly on their country's page.