{"id":24440,"date":"2013-03-22T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2019-07-26T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:50:20","slug":"international-seo-andre-alpar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/international-seo-andre-alpar\/","title":{"rendered":"International SEO: Creating a Great Web Experience Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have a website that needs to offer a great experience for all users worldwide? Then this interview with SES New York speaker Andre Alpar of AKM3<\/a>\u00a0in Berlin is for you. In this chat, Andre gives tips on how to structure your site for international users, how to remedy duplicate content issues and the tricky issue of geotargeting. Read on to tap into his insights on international SEO.<\/p>\n

Jessica Lee: What structural factors do international and multilingual sites need to consider and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andre Alpar:<\/strong> Two cases need to be distinguished:<\/p>\n

\"Andre<\/a>
Andre Alpar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. First, some websites can be set to different languages but won\u2019t be customized to a country or the language in question. In those cases, a U.S. and a UK version would be the same. Facebook is a classic example.<\/li>\n
  2. The other case is when there are different versions of the website for each country, for example, online retailers such as Amazon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In these circumstances, it\u2019s important to consider how to get search engines to properly understand what content targets are for which country. There are three different solutions good for this:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. \u00a0Separate top-level domains.<\/li>\n
    2. Subdomains targeting the different countries.<\/li>\n
    3. Using subfolders.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      From a programming perspective, subfolders are often the best solution as it happens to be the cheapest. From an off-page SEO perspective, the best results are reached with different TLDs in the long term.<\/p>\n

      Tell us a bit about duplicate content issues for international sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      International websites used to have massive duplicate content issues. A classic example would be a website with information about a certain brand or product that would be the same for several countries using the same language but on different top level domains.<\/p>\n

      Luckily, through the annotations rel=”alternate” hreflang=”X”<\/a> \u2013 introduced approximately a year ago now \u2013 most critical duplicate content issues that international sites had are now easily resolved.<\/p>\n

      What are some of the issues international sites face with geotargeting, and how do you approach handling them?
      \n<\/strong>
      \nOur experiences with geotargeting are very mixed. There is always danger of search engines misinterpreting automated redirects based on geotargeting with cloaking, which may then be a violation of webmaster guidelines.<\/p>\n

      If you have an ad server that can do geotargeting for large ad spaces for onsite marketing on the root URL, then that is something we often recommend.<\/p>\n

      We have positive experiences with \u201conly one click away\u201d popups that offer the visitor to the right version of the website. It\u2019s not the most user-friendly approach, but it keeps the SEO efforts robust and safe.<\/p>\n

      Also, the case of a visitor landing on the wrong language or region should actually never happen, provided that the SEO setup handles multilingual<\/a> and international sites correctly.<\/p>\n

      If you\u2019re headed to SES New York<\/a> , you can catch Andre in the session, \u201cBreaking Down the Borders: International and Multilingual SEO<\/a>\u201d on March 27 at 4:00 p.m. Stay connected with Andre on Twitter @AndreAlpar <\/a>or Google<\/a>+.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Do you have a website that needs to offer a great experience for all users worldwide? Then this interview with SES New York speaker Andre Alpar of AKM3 in Berlin is for you. In this chat, Andre gives tips on how to structure your site for international users, how to remedy duplicate content issues and the tricky issue of geotargeting. Read on to tap into his insights on international SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"BruceClay - International SEO: Creating a Great Web Experience Worldwide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you have a website that needs to offer a great experience for all users worldwide? 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