Comments on: International SEO Guidelines and Best Practices

By: International SEO: Need Your Help | Search Engine Journal

International SEO: Need Your Help | Search Engine Journal — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:39:24 +0000

[...] you have a global website for example yousite.com and yoursite.co.uk, each one should have its own IP address in that country. So, if your site is a UK site, don’t expect to rank for terms that are generic if you’re [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:09:36 +0000

I am newbie in the field of SEO, I don’t have much experience and knowledge about international market and clients. This guidelines and best practices are definitely help me in future. Thanks.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:58:22 +0000

I’m an SEO consultant who does a lot of work with international clients, and speaking from experience, the guidelines you list here are 100% accurate. One of my clients has dozens of international sites, and while they use country-specific domain extensions, ALL of their domains are hosted in the US.

Not ideal at all. I’ve tried convincing them of making a change, but centralized management and security is more important to them. However, using Webmaster Tools to specify the country a domain is intended for does work well.

One other thing that seems to help, is use of language tags in your page headers. And I can’t stress enough the importance of getting links that are from sites hosted in your target country.

Great blog, keep up the good work!