What's the difference between 'en-gb' and 'en-uk; when choosing Search engines in campaign set up?

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

What's the difference search engine wise and which one should I choose, i presume GB since covers entire British landmass whereas UK excludes Ireland according to political definition, is it the same according to Google (& other engines) ?

All Best

Dan

[DirkC]

Hi Dan,

en-uk doesn't exist - it's en-gb. Check http://microformats.org/wiki/en-uk

Dirk

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks so much for confirming that !

So is it simply an error that Moz Analytics campaign set up keeps it as an option ?

All Best

Dan

[LynnPatchett]

Hey Dan,

Its a bit confusing and has been for a while! See: https://moz.com/community/q/uk-and-gb-when-selecting-targeted-engines-in-campaign-management. Results should be the same between them anyway but Moz is saying that GB is the mistake and is due to be phased out.

[DirkC]

Hi Dan

Sorry - my mistake - when I was replying I had the href lang tag in mind. Check the link in Lynn's answer.

Dirk

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thats great thanks Lynn, i just had a response from Moz too saying they will phase out GB so use UK ideally

Thanks everyone

[Dan-Lawrence]

No worries Dirk

All BEst
Dan

[david-mazepress]

Thanks for this guys. I was also confused.

Lynn - When you say GB is the mistake and will be phased out the only confusion here is that with Yahoo and Bing they only offer a GB option and no UK option. So will all GB options be phased out? or just for Google and Google Mobile?

Thanks

[StudentSEO]

Moz should be using the ISO standard, which is en-GB http://www.andiamo.co.uk/resources/iso-language-codes

Seems they are confusing matters as well as people.

[StudentSEO]

Using en-UK is a mistake, should be using en-GB

http://www.andiamo.co.uk/resources/iso-language-codes

[to909]

Looks like this has been a bug since 2011? (When looking at the thread https://moz.com/community/q/uk-and-gb-when-selecting-targeted-engines-in-campaign-management.)

Jon from Moz said in a comment from 2014 that they would be digging into the problem and updating... but no updates as of today 4/30/2018.