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@aleyda#InternationalSEO #12A
Establishing a Successful International Web Presence
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I Do SEO
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I’m Aleyda Solis
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I help companies to connect with potential customers all over the world
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Generating actual customers, conversions & profit from them
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Here’s how you can do it too!
Avoid targeting
markets that are not profitable
Select the best Web structure to target your international
markets
Effectively geolocate & localize your
Web presence
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Identify which countries & languages are already bringing traffic & conversions
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The ones where your competition & industry leaders are already profiting from
https://www.similarweb.com/
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Verify which are the countries with more organic search traffic potential in your industry
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Check the level of already existing organic search competition there
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Align this with your own multilingual & international operations capacity
Other Traffic Drivers
Used Search Engines Competitors
AuthorityAudience
Search Behavior & interests
Organic Search Traffic
Volume & Share
COUNTRY CURRENT ORGANIC SEARCH TRAFFIC
COMPETITION LEVEL SEARCH VOLUME OPPORTUNITY SEARCH TREND
IN MARKETSEARCH
ENGINE USED SPAM LEVEL
UK 100 per month High 500,000 searches per month Positive Google Low
Spain 50 per month Medium 300,000 searches per month Positive Google Medium
Country & Language
Operations Capacity
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Verify if there’s enough organic search traffic to compensate a profitable Web activity
Cost of international Web projectNumber of Conversions for a break-even Average conversion value
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No. of Conversions for Break-evenNumber of visits for a break-even Average Conversion Rate
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Identify if you should language or country target first
Is location a factor that influence your Web operations?
Yes No
Is there enough traffic & conversions to target each country?
Language Targeting
Yes No
Country Targeting
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Like they have done
vs
Language TargetingCountry Targeting
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Use the International SEO ROI calculatorto facilitate this
http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/roi-calculator/
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Now you can decide which international search markets to target
>Your International traffic potential Visits & Conversions for a break-even
Yes No
Continue with the international Web & SEO project
Might be too early
For most important countries
Buy & secure your ccTLDs for future activity
Create custom alerts
Create a pilot project prioritizing
main pages
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Select the best Web structure to target your international markets
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Avoid using scripts or cookies showing your international Web versions with the same URLs
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As well as parameters for your international Web structure
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If you’re country targeting, select between ccTLDs, Subdirectories & Subdomains
ccTLDswww.yourbrand.es
www.yourbrand.es/categoria-a/
Sub-directoriesw/ gTLDs www.yourbrand.com/es-es/
www.yourbrand.com/es-es/categoria-a/
Sub-domains w/ gTLDs es-es.yourbrand.com/
es-es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/
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Each have pros & cons to country target
* Need less technical resources * Need less efforts to grow popularity* More chances to get all versions penalized if something goes bad * Need more efforts to geolocate
* Need more technical resources * Need more efforts to grow popularity * Better than sub-directories to organize larger & more complex sites * Need more efforts to geolocate
* Ideal alternative to geolocate if competition is not too high * Need more technical resources * Need more efforts to grow popularity with a new domain
ccTLDs
Sub-directoriesw/ gTLDs
Sub-domains w/ gTLDs
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If you’re language targeting, select between using subdirectories or subdomains
Sub-directorieswww.yourbrand.com
www.yourbrand.com/es/categoria-a/
Sub-domainses.yourbrand.com/
es.yourbrand.com/categoria-a/
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Which also have pros & cons to language target
* Need less technical resources * Need less efforts to grow popularity * Generates a deeper url structure * More chances to get all versions penalized if something goes bad
* Need more technical resources * Need more efforts to grow popularity * Generates shorter URL structure which can be better for larger sites
Sub-directories
Sub-domains
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It’s key to be consistent though and avoid mixing international Web structures
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Take into consideration that Google doesn’t support “continents” to geotarget
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Verify which Web structures are used by the top sites in the desired market
13 ccTLDs vs.
7gTLDs
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As well as those rankings for the potential top queries in that market
https://serpchecker.com/
7 ccTLDs vs.
2 gTLDs
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What’s the authority of those top ranking sites? Can you compete with a new ccTLD?
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Yes
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Choose your international Web structure accordingly
What’s your international target?
Country Language
Are your top competitors using
ccTLDs? Yes
Is the domain authority of your
competition higher &
a concern?
Yes
Use ccTLDs
No
No
Use Geolocalized Sub-Directories
YesNo Do you need a flatter & more
differentiated URL structure?
Use Sub-Directories
Is the domain authority of your
competition higher &
a concern?
Use Sub-Domains
No
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Avoid ranking with a non-relevant Web version in your international search results
com.au
com.au
com.au
com.au
com.au
com
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Not only with country versions, but also language ones that will cannibalize themselves
Searching from Google Spain
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Misaligned pages will have worse rankings, CTR, user experience and conversions
This happens with a UK ccTLD
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Verify which domain extensions are treated as generic by Google to geolocate if needed
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922
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Register & geolocate in GSC each sub-directory or sub-domain to country target
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It’s better to avoid automatic redirects based on the IP location
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As you might assume too much and give a negative user experience
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Localize every aspect of your Web content & design
URL
Meta DescriptionCurrency
Menu
Title
Images
H1
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Get native support to optimize the content using the relevant terms of the target markets
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Remember that language might be the same but the terms could be different based on country
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Not only the content, but also the design; based on local preferences & culture
In Japan In the UK
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Indicate your international targeting with the meta & html lang tag
http://bit.ly/binglang
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As well as specifying your pages language and country alternates with hreflang
bit.ly/hreflangannotations
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Every page should include its language & country target, and point to its other versions
English for the US Default
Spanish for the US
English for the UK
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.brand.com/dogs/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/dogs/“ />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang=“es-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/es/perros/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-gb" href=“http://www.brand.co.uk/dogs/“ />
<link rel="canonical" href=“http://www.brand.com/es/perros/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/dogs/“ />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang=“es-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/es/perros/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-gb" href=“http://www.brand.co.uk/dogs/“ />
brand.com/dogs/
brand.co.uk/dogs/
brand.com/es/perros/
English for the US
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<link rel="canonical" href=“http://www.brand.co.uk/dogs/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/dogs/“ />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang=“es-us" href=“http://www.brand.com/es/perros/“ /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang=“en-gb" href=“http://www.brand.co.uk/dogs/“ />
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Using ISO 639-1 values for languages and ISO 3166-1 for countries
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You can add them in the HTML Head or in XML Sitemaps, as well as HTTP Headers
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Add them in XML Sitemaps in non-flexible sites with a high number of
versions
Add them in HTML in sites
with lower number of
versions & coding flexibility
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Start with only the necessary ones checking traffic misalignment if there are too many
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Beware of including incorrect hreflang values
hreflang="en-gb"
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Adding a country without a language, which is mandatory
hreflang="pt-br"
hreflang="en-ca"
Not supported
hreflang="es-mx"
hreflang="en-us"
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Using underscores instead of dashes to separate language & country values
hreflang=“fr-ca”
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Forgetting to self-refer by specifying the current URL in the hreflangs
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Not referring back at all from one language or country version to another
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Adding non-indexable, canonicalized, error, redirected or blocked URLs in hreflangs
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It’s critical to avoid these errors so the hreflang tags are not ignored…
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Monitor the existence of these issues with the GSC International Targeting report
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It specifies the type of error and the number of pages affected
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As well as the URLs where these issues have been found
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Avoid these issues by generating correct annotations with the Hreflang Generator Tool
bit.ly/generatorhreflang
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Generating the XML sitemaps along hreflang tags with the hrefbuilder
hrefbuilder.com
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Validate the hreflang implementation using crawlers like Botify that supports it
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With OnPage.org that allows to segment each international version issues
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Or DeepCrawl that verifies hreflang implemented in XML sitemaps too
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If you follow these generation & validation steps you’ll be able to specify them effectively
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And grow your international search visibility with effectively geolocalized Web versions
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