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Let them land there (you don't really have a choice in that from search). But if the page really isn't relevant and there is no equivalent, think about popping a message to them telling them that you think they are in the US and that the area for the US users is here and link them there. Also give them a way to contact some sort of help. Either a Help area or an email address.

Hi SEOCT! It's completely fine to have different website designs for different regions. You have to be sure that the content is targeted to the selected country and that you've set the correct configuration of hreflangs. When it comes to hreflangs, remember that it has to have a self-referential tag too. For some further information: Tell Google about localized versions of your page - Google Search Console help These resources always come handy in cases like this: Hreflang generator - Aleyda Solis International SEO - Moz Learning Center The Guide to International Website Expansion: Hreflang, ccTLDs, & More! - Moz Blog The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog Best luck. Hope it helps. Gaston

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Great - that makes sense. I will add en-gb hreflang markup too. You raise some really good points about organisations having to think clearly about the need to undertake multi-regional / multi-lingual SEO and the potential implications of this. In our situation we've come to the conclusion that there is a business case to undertake this venture. When I joined there was already a US office and a few pages written for the US already published on our website in a different design language. Fortunately these pages were recently created and set not to allow crawling. If they were to be indexed at best they may not rank and at worst they may actually interfere with our other page rankings - as well as causing confusion for users (duplicate product / contact / client pages, different navigation structures, designs etc). In the end we decided the best approach would to be to internationalise our website and target these pages to the region / language they were designed for. But yes definitely has been a challenge!

Thanks for the detailed response Nick - great summary! "If you choose to try to guess at the user’s language preference when they enter your site, you can use the browser’s language setting or the IP address and ask the user to confirm the choice. Using JavaScript to do this will ensure that Googlebot does not get confused." I presume web developers would know how to do this?

Ok great thanks for clarifying Kate!

Thankyou Soo Much. Great Post

Hi Ruth, I'm getting an alert in Moz Pro's analysis of my site about my Blog having duplicate content. https://pacificbeachhomes.com/blog/ It's because my blog shows 5 posts per page, so older blog posts spill over into "page 2" etc. . . and each of those pages has the same title and meta description. I read that the rel="prev" and rel="next" are not used by google anymore, and I also noticed that my site is not using it. Do you have any suggestions for my blog to avoid any duplicate content issues. maybe it's fine that the blog pages are similar?

Title tags are an introduction to your content. Google Algos look at them whrm making a decision about content. Two titles with similar titles create ambiguity. How to solve? Create different titles. If your pages are same. Take one down https://quoracreative.com/article/title-tag