International SEO

The opportunity for growth outside your own language and country is potentially huge. However, you can’t simply translate your pages into another language and expect to rank well in a different country or for users to behave in the same way.

We need to help search engines as much as we can by sending them the right signals. Like with regular SEO, our approach is that we must deserve to rank in the new markets, taking the expansion as seriously for other languages and countries as we do for our native language and country.

Also, Google is not the only search engine to consider. Search engines like Baidu, Yandex and Naver are market leaders in some other countries, meaning a different plan will be required.

Often, websites aren’t designed with international expansion in mind, so to avoid issues further down the line, like duplicate content, technical errors or a site structure that won’t scale – we usually start with building out a comprehensive roadmap for the future. This will include incorporating international SEO best practices to work through the more complex technical challenges of launching in a new market, such as whether new content should sit on separate ccTLD, in subfolders or on subdomains.

We’ll also conduct local user research, assess search competitors, work with native speakers to create localised content as well as adapting the messaging, and develop campaigns to earn links from good quality, relevant websites in your target countries.