Why don't our English versions show up first?

[GreatFire.org]

If I google "greatfire" I find the Chinese version of our website (zh.greatfire.org) before the English version (en.greatfire.org). This is not on the Chinese-language version of Google. Why is this? Our site even has a language indicator () and also hints of where the English version is ().

The same thing happens if I google "freeweibo". I find https://freeweibo.com but not https://freeweibo.com/en/, even though we indicate that's the English version ().

Any ideas?

[SanketPatel]

Hi,

I find both tags in your en.greatfire.org ( English version)  source page:

**<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en</a>" href="[https://en.greatfire.org](view-source:https://en.greatfire.org/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">zh-hans</a>" href="[https://zh.greatfire.org](view-source:https://zh.greatfire.org/)" />**

Can you remove Chinese version(second one) from source.  Same thing in Chinese version, remove english version tag. Hope this works for you...

[GreatFire.org]

According to https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077 :

Update the HTML of each URL in the set by adding a set of rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link elements. Include a rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link for every URL in the set, like this:

So your recommendation seems to contradict what Google instructs.

Other ideas?

[SanketPatel]

You are right mate:

Let me finish below post on "international seo"  by Gianluca. Hope I will get something related to your problem. Here is the URL:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-dropping-the-information-dust

[SanketPatel]

I have look into few sites. For example: I have just apple.com, which is doing good in all country Like from UK you will get apple.com/uk/ page and from India you will get apple.com/in/.

I am not sure, but I think its happening because by default site is redirecting to https://zh.greatfire.org/ means when I open greatfire.org I redirected to https://zh.greatfire.org/ .

I am not sure regarding it....