Question on Indexing, Hreflang tag, Canonical

[jrohwer]

Hi David and Tom,
Many thanks for all the details and references and combining my reply. And BTW, I'm Suparno, our agency account is in Jeff's name, anyways.

I thought of hreflang tags, but here is the point. We can force EN-US for US site, but how can we tackle the rest of the world. They won't be willing to go for all (major) country specific pages and tags, because So in practical scenario, it will be example.com for the US and and example.com/ex-us for the rest of the world. So, the question is how do we tackle that .../ex-us home page, which will be an almost duplicate of example.com

LMK your thoughts.

suparno

[jrohwer]

Hi David and Tom,
Many thanks for all the details and references and combining my reply. And BTW, I'm Suparno, our agency account is in Jeff's name, anyways.

I thought of hreflang tags, but here is the point. We can force EN-US for US site, but how can we tackle the rest of the world. They won't be willing to go for all (major) country specific pages and tags, because So in practical scenario, it will be example.com for the US and and example.com/ex-us for the rest of the world. So, the question is how do we tackle that .../ex-us home page, which will be an almost duplicate of example.com

LMK your thoughts.

suparno

[BlueprintMarketing]

"So, the question is how do we tackle that .../ex-us home page, which will be an almost duplicate of example.com"

Make the x page /x & tell people that what types of English you have with it.

Then on /en-us/ use the USA based content you have now you can even skip the

hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/

&

Use

I would use

The bottom four to start going after the rest of the world if you add hreflang the page is not thought of a duplicate page.

Try making tags using https://www.sistrix.com/hreflang-guide/hreflang-generator/

Wach this video by Google https://youtu.be/8ce9jv91beQ

This tell's you everything https://www.sistrix.com/hreflang-guide/ about duplicate content & hreflang

Hope this helps,

Tom

[jrohwer]

Thanks Tom, this should be good enough, many thanks.

suparno

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Suparno,

Happy to be of help.

PS.

I know one thing that has made a very big difference for me. If you are going to use one domain to rank all over the world using subfolders. By matching a server near users with a web-based load balancer like (GSLB) global server load balancer you can keep users very happy.

I have seen the best from Fastly & Incapsula

• https://www.fastly.com/products/load-balancing
• or
• https://www.incapsula.com/global-server-load-balancing.html

All the best,

Tom

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[jrohwer]

Hi Tom,

Sorry, one more question, trying to narrow down.
So, we can use:

for the rest of the world page

and

for the US site.

Am I correct?

suparno

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Suparno,

Yes you can by using the /x/ page to list Languages that you offer you can utilize it to tell users what language's you offer.  But keep your site the way it is (for the USA) so it would look like this. One lang page & then making "/" the US site/folder.

Does that make sense?

Let me know if you have any other questions.

all the best,

Tom

[BlueprintMarketing]

This is a great checklist

https://moz.com/blog/the-international-seo-checklist

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/international-seo-strategy-guide/

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[jrohwer]

Thanks Tom for all the insights and details.

suparno

[BlueprintMarketing]

Any time always happy to help me let me know if I can be of any service in the future.