MultiRegional site indexing problems

[Alejandrodurn]

Hello there!!!

I have a multiregional site and dealing with some indexing problems. The problem is that google have only indexed our USA site

We have:

-set up hreflang tags

-set up specific subdirectories

https://www.website.com/  (en-us site and our main site)

https://www.website.com/en-gb

https://www.website.com/en-ca

https://www.website.com/fr-ca

https://www.website.com/fr-fr

https://www.website.com/es-es .....

-set up automatic GEO IP redirects (301 redirects)

-created a sitemap index and a different sitemap for each regional site

-created a google webmaster's tool for each country targeted

-created translations for each different language and added some canonicals to the US' site when using English content.

The problem is that Google is not indexing our regional sites. I think that the problem is that google is using a US bot when spidering the site, so it will be always redirect to the US version by a 301 redirect. I have used fetch as google with some of our regional folders and asked for "Indexing requested for URL and linked pages", but still waiting.

Some ideas?? changing 301 to 302? Really don't know what to do.

Thank you so much!!

[GastonRiera]

Hello Alejandro,

Remove the automatic GEO IR redirect and be sure that you have the hreflang tag correctly set up.
Let google figure out the internationalization and index the correct site for each language and country.

Take a look at these articles, it might help you:
International checklist - Moz Blog
Using the correct hreglang tag - Moz Blog
Guide to international website expansion - Moz Blog
Tool for checking hreflang anotations - Moz Blog

Hope it helps.
GR