UK and USA site showing up in UK serps for Brand search

[Alexcox6]

Hay Moz Community.

I really hope you can shed some light as I am going round in circles.

If you do a search in google UK for Oak Furniture Land you will see the two result is www.oakfurnitureland.co.uk and then www.oakfurnitureland.com

The problem I have is only the UK site should be showing. Both have hreflang implemented and targeting in search console for UK and USA respectively but it seams that google does not want play ball.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated

Alex

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[Joe_Stoffel]

Hey Alex,

That is tough - after reading the title of your post I assumed this would be a quick "add hreflang tags and set international targeting in Google Search Console." How long have the hreflang tags and international targeting been set up? The answer may be just to 'wait'.

Do you have offices/locations in both the US and UK? If so, you could set up Google Business pages for each and link to the appropriate site given the region. This would also allow you to build local citations and/or business listings using country specific directories/websites and make sure those go to the appropriate site. Example:

Submit UK Site to Yell.com ("The UK's leading online business directory")

Submit US Site to YellowPages.com ("YP is a leading local marketing solutions provider in the US")

[Alexcox6]

Hi Joel,

It certainly is not a simple fix as we have ticked all the standard boxes.

The hreflang has been in a good 4-5 months now.

We have offices and stores in the Uk so have business listings set up for them to cover the local citation and pack. hopefully will have physical offices in the USA soon so I can do the same. Its not a massive issue as the UK domain holds the top spot but the directors and I cant fathom why the US serp is still showing.