/en-us/ Outranking Root Domain and other hreflang errors

[AndyMitty]

I'm working with a new site that has a few regional sites in subdirectories /en-us/, /en-au/, etc and just noticed that some of our interior pages (ourdomain.com/en-us/interior-page1/ ) are outranking the equivalent ourdomain.com/interior-page1. This only occurs in some SERPS while others correctly display the non-regional result. I was told we have hreflang tags implemented correctly in the meta information of each of our pages but have yet to research deeply.

Should we even have a /en-us/ version when our root domain is the default version, in english, and targeted to US primarily? Any help would be appreciated as I am a little lost.

Cheers,

Andrew

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Should we even have a /en-us/ version when our root domain is the default version, in english, and targeted to US primarily?

Hi Andrew,

The general rule of thumb here, is if your target is the US and language English, then this should sit at the root of the site rather than within a location identifier - so from what you say, this is implemented incorrectly.

Correct this and it should correct your issues.

However, you will need to set some 301's so that any pages that are indexed under /en-us/ will forward on to the new and correct URL.

I hope this helps.

-Andy