What is the best Onsite SEO technique to rank in different countries using one domain?

Domains, Sub Domain? Ah..why not Sub Folders? Does it bewilders you?

Follow my advice below and it should help you rank well in different countries using one domain to geo target different countries.

1-Country Domains(Not Recommended)

Do not register different domains www.yourdomain.com.nz (new Zealand) or www.yourdomain.pk (Pakistan).

Advantages:

No Advantages.

Disadvantages:

Domains are costly, not just costly, it reduces the chances of people linking to you. Using more than one domain has fewer chances of backlinks, you don’t want your links shared with 10 others of your domains?

2-Sub Domain(Not Recommended)

Sub domain is a good option to use but it has its advantages and disadvantages. (maybe more disadvantages)

Advantages:

Subdomains can be hosted in different locations.Therefore, you can host the pk. subdomain in Pakistan and the nz. subdomain in New Zealand. Search engines takes hosting location into account when determining where a site should rank best, you can inform Google using Google webmaster as well.

Disadvantages:

Google take sub domain as a separate domain. They are taken as independent sites. Therefore, links that each sub domain gets does not help the link juice distribution as a whole on your domain.

3-Sub Folders (Recommended)

Advantages:

Google take sub folders as part of your website, therefore the link distribution via your root domain to inner sub folders is distributed accordingly, and from sub folders to other pages (other way around).

If someone links to a sub folder of your website consider it to be /subfolderA and /SubFolderA is then linked to /SubFolderB, the link juice is distributed to /SubFolderB as well, therefore maintaining a good link juice distribution within your domain as a whole.

Disadvantages:

No disadvantages.