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    • Pandjarov
      Pandjarov last edited by

      I've done everything I can think of to set internationalization between three domains but Google keeps showing my .com results in Spain where .es results should be displayed. The site is siteground.com siteground.es and sitegorund.co.uk. I've used alternate tags which I think are set correctly, siteground.co.uk ranks pretty well in the UK search but in Spain - still can't get .es results and that's been 3 months already.

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      • GastonRiera
        GastonRiera last edited by

        Hi Hristo,

        Have you used Href lang tag? Have you declared the country in Google WebMasters Tool? 
        Have you done any linkbuilding? its advisable to get links from the geolocation that you want to rank. i.e. from spanish sites when ranking for google.es

        I strongly suggest you to read and learn from these posts:

        Location is Everything: Local Rankings in Moz Analytics - Moz Blog
        Beginners guide - Chapter 5: Keyword Research - Moz.com
        Why We Can't Do Keyword Research Like It's 2010 - Moz Blog
        The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog Hope it helps.
        GR.

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        • Pandjarov
          Pandjarov @GastonRiera last edited by

          I've done that, the country is declared in GWT, google fetches it, there are quality links from authoritive websites that already point to those pages, not thousands but still few. I've read all those articles long ago. I was hoping someone to take a look at the site meta and/or suggest some actions.

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          • DirkC
            DirkC last edited by

            Your href lang tags don't seem to be ok - you should include all tags on all versions (incl. the own language - so the es version of the page should also include the es version of hreflang:

            The UK version seems to have the es tag twice - remove the 2nd one.

            You can check the implementation here: http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/ - a generator can be found here: http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/

            Not sure if it's going to solve your problem - but with your current implementation I fear you're sending mixed signals to Google.

            Dirk

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            • Pandjarov
              Pandjarov last edited by

              Implementing those right away, hope it will work 🙂

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