International SEO

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

If you were developing a US version of an existing UK site then is this the correct format/instructions for on-page SEO.  Ive taken quite a lot from Aleydas great post:  http://moz.com/blog/the-international-seo-checklist but just want to confirm below is a good overall checklist to provide to clients developers ?

1. Create US & UK country & language subfolders such as:

domain.com/en-us/

and

domain.com/en-gb/

2. Add 'rel=alternatehreflang' attribute according to google guidelines

3. Add individual site map to each subfolder or will the hreflang attribute do or vice versa or both best?

4. Don't redirect users via IP sniffing their location and serving up country/language version.  Instead obviously link between language/country versions with a crawlable and very visible menu.

5. Use the meta content language/country by adding the 'country-language' meta-tag in your html head

6. Create individual profiles in GWT & GA for each country/language version and geotarget accordingly

7. Localise content: spelling, currency, contacts etc

Anything else re on-page/technical im missing ?

Many Thanks
Dan

[edited to fix formatting]