We're leveraging top-level categories to build out sub-communities for our global markets (e.g.: US, Canada, UK, etc.) However, I'm stumped on what to do with our URL/ homepage situation. Should I... A) Create a custom global homepage that lives on the root URL, and acts almost as a marketing page for the community. Visitors landing on this page will either be auto-directed to the right place (based on their IP), or they can self-select into a particular country. (Separate but related question - should this page have a search bar to search the entire community?) B) Redirect the root URL to the US sub-community (as it gets the most traffic), and implement some sort of country selector in the header. Ideally international visitors will be dropped into the appropriate sub-community (based on IP or login data), but in the event they're not, they'll have to navigate to the right place via the header. Thoughts on how best to handle? I'm looking to balance the experience for international visitors with ensuring we maintain a high self-service rate for our largest market.
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