Noob question about international seo

Ronnie Machio · Dec 30, 2019

So I have site.com which I am trying to rank for KW A. I also have a UK version of the sike with the same content that I would like to rank for the same keyword. Should I do separate rankings SEO for the same keyword with the separate domains?

Hasnain Haider Abbas · Dec 31, 2019

u need to have separate content buddy otherwise you can end up with penalty on one of your sites if Google does not know that both sites are owned by the same person.

Ronnie Machio · Dec 31, 2019

am sure with search console and the fact that the URL is the same except the cctld that they know....

hideath · Dec 31, 2019

you have to use hreflang meta tags in both of your websites, making each one of them pointing to the other.
read more about them here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/hreflang-tags/

The Gambler · Dec 31, 2019

Can't you use uk.site.com (Uk version), site.com (international version)?

ForPBN · Dec 31, 2019

GAMBLER O_O said:
Can't you use uk.site.com (Uk version), site.com (international version)?

Same question here.

Ronnie Machio · Jan 1, 2020

maybe I wasn't clear in my question so let me repeat it. I have site widgets.com selling widgets. I also have the UK version of widgets.com (widgets.co.uk) selling widgets to UK clients. I would like to rank for the term widgets both with my .com site and UK site (but for UK just for google UK) Would I have to rank separately for the same KW in both markets as in do seo for "widgets" internationally with the .com domain and in the UK for the UK domain or just try to rank it with one domain and not both?

hideath · Jan 1, 2020

Ronnie Machio said:
maybe I wasn't clear in my question so let me repeat it. I have site widgets.com selling widgets. I also have the UK version of widgets.com (widgets.co.uk) selling widgets to UK clients. I would like to rank for the term widgets both with my .com site and UK site (but for UK just for google UK) Would I have to rank separately for the same KW in both markets as in do seo for "widgets" internationally with the .com domain and in the UK for the UK domain or just try to rank it with one domain and not both?

Well, use the hreflang tags as I mentioned. This will protect you against penalties and duplicate content.
However, you have to rank both websites separately. idk if each one of them benefits the other or not, apart from internal linking

hideath · Jan 1, 2020

GAMBLER O_O said:
Can't you use uk.site.com (Uk version), site.com (international version)?

ForPBN said:
Same question here.

Yes you can, just read more about it in here, make sure to do everything properly or you will get into trouble
https://ahrefs.com/blog/hreflang-tags/

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