International SEO - Setting up reporting
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What would you consider to be a best practice for setting up international keyword tracking? Both in MOZ and in Google Analytics?
- Would you set them up by language? IE Spanish, French, German... Or by country? Mexico, Spain, US Spanish, French Canadian, French... ect...
*Our website is set up with our countries in subdomains.
We currently are in about 10 different countries and plan on expanding globally. Any advice helps! Much thanks!
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We did it by country for a international shop with more than 10 different languages. Seems as the easiest solution for me as well. Worked fine for us.
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Personally, I would replicate your website structure, so in this case, go with by Country. I imagine you'll always get a cross-over which ever option you choose, but for simplicity now & in the future, this sounds like the easiest option!
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