International SEO

International SEO Services: Get hreflang Right

International SEO services for multi-market sites, where the usual fault is not content but configuration. Hreflang set up once and never reconciled against the live locale set.

Most International Problems Are Configuration

International sites rarely fail on content quality. They fail because hreflang was configured once, markets were added or retired since, and nothing reconciled the two.

The second recurring fault is near-duplication across markets. The same product described in near-identical English for the UK, Ireland and Australia gives a crawler three pages competing to be the one it keeps.

Both are unglamorous and both are cheaper to fix than to work around. Neither needs a translation budget to diagnose.

What We Reconcile

OUR METHODOLOGY

How We Work on International Sites

01

Reconcile the Locale Set

What hreflang declares against what the business actually operates. On most multi-market sites these have drifted apart.

02

Return Tag Audit

Hreflang must be reciprocal, and one missing return tag invalidates the pair. This is the most common single defect.

03

Duplication Across Markets

Where English-language markets carry near-identical copy, decide which owns which query and differentiate or consolidate.

04

Market Priority

Not every market deserves equal investment. We size the demand per market from local data before recommending where to spend.

05

Per-Market Reporting

Segmented by market rather than rolled up, because a roll-up hides the one market that is failing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do we need hreflang if all our markets are in English?
Usually yes, and this is exactly where sites get caught. UK, Irish, Australian and US English pages are near-duplicates without it, and hreflang is what tells Google they are market variants rather than competing copies.
Subdirectories, subdomains or separate domains?
Subdirectories are the usual recommendation because they consolidate authority, but the right answer depends on your hosting, your teams and whether markets are run independently. It is an architecture decision, not a preference.
What is the most common hreflang mistake?
A missing return tag. Hreflang has to be reciprocal, so if page A points to B but B does not point back, the pair is ignored entirely. It is easy to introduce and invisible without a crawl.
Should we translate or write per market?
Translate where the proposition is identical, write locally where it is not. Translated content that ignores local phrasing and search behaviour ranks poorly even when the translation is good.

Reconcile hreflang against reality.

Send us your market list and we will check it against what your hreflang actually declares. The gap between the two is where most international problems live.

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