I have problems with internationalizations
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I've done everything I can think of to set internationalization between three domains but Google keeps showing my .com results in Spain where .es results should be displayed. The site is siteground.com siteground.es and sitegorund.co.uk. I've used alternate tags which I think are set correctly, siteground.co.uk ranks pretty well in the UK search but in Spain - still can't get .es results and that's been 3 months already.
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Implementing those right away, hope it will work
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Your href lang tags don't seem to be ok - you should include all tags on all versions (incl. the own language - so the es version of the page should also include the es version of hreflang:
The UK version seems to have the es tag twice - remove the 2nd one.
You can check the implementation here: http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/ - a generator can be found here: http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/international-seo-tools/hreflang-tags-generator/
Not sure if it's going to solve your problem - but with your current implementation I fear you're sending mixed signals to Google.
Dirk
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I've done that, the country is declared in GWT, google fetches it, there are quality links from authoritive websites that already point to those pages, not thousands but still few. I've read all those articles long ago. I was hoping someone to take a look at the site meta and/or suggest some actions.
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Hi Hristo,
Have you used Href lang tag? Have you declared the country in Google WebMasters Tool?
Have you done any linkbuilding? its advisable to get links from the geolocation that you want to rank. i.e. from spanish sites when ranking for google.esI strongly suggest you to read and learn from these posts:
Location is Everything: Local Rankings in Moz Analytics - Moz Blog
Beginners guide - Chapter 5: Keyword Research - Moz.com
Why We Can't Do Keyword Research Like It's 2010 - Moz Blog
The International SEO Checklist - Moz Blog Hope it helps.
GR.
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