Same Content on Two Separate Geotargeted Paths??

[schmeetz]

Matt Cutts and Maile Ohye were asked the following:

Question: Aaron D'Souza of the Search Quality team was reported as stating that publishing the same content on two separate geotargeted paths under your domain will not trigger the dupe content filters. Is this correct?

Google’s Answer: In general, in a case like that, we'd try to pick the best page based on various factors, including geotargeting and language choices. If that page is one which is also available for other geotargeting/language choices, we will generally try to pick the version that our algorithms feel makes the most sense.

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I don't quite understand the above.

Is domain.com/UK a separate geotargeted path?
If so, can i duplicate my site under domain.com/uk to attract UK traffic? I do .ES and .FR right now but those are languages.

[incrediblehelp]

Here is your key part:

"we'd try to pick"

Sure they will try, but will they succeed?

[ron angel]

I don't quite understand the above.

Is domain.com/UK a separate geotargeted path?
If so, can i duplicate my site under domain.com/uk to attract UK traffic? I do .ES and .FR right now but those are languages.[/QUOTE]

I did what you are suggesting a long time ago & caused problems.
I have found the simple way is to just have the uk site hosted on a uk server and use 301 redirect. the problem is that after sometime the search engines will give it a low ranking (from actual experience not theory)
I think the way to go about it would be to register as stated the sites in the designated country's you want to cover, then make on each one a page or two with unique content & keywords ect to the products you are selling then on these sites have pages linking to the main & internal pages of your main .com site the internal pages have pricing & delivery charges to the relevant country concerned.people going to main site directly & those following link from external country sites would be directed from main page or to the pricing pages directly depending on how the came upon the main site. this as the external site were in different country's would have the added effect of giving you highly relevant external links.you would also submit the external sites to local search engines in the respective country's to help even more.
any pages not in English(as long as not repeated) would not be counted as duplicate pages because I dont think that the search engines are that clever...Yet...