If a page ranks in the wrong country and is redirected, does that problem pass to the new page?

[ParisChildress]

Hi guys, I'm having a weird problem:

A new multilingual site was launched about 2 months ago. It has correct hreflang tags and Geo targetting in GSC for every language version.

We redirected some relevant pages (with good PA) from another website of our client's. It turned out that the pages were not ranking in the correct country markets (for example, the en-gb page ranking in the USA). The pages from our site seem to have the same problem.

Do you think they inherited it due to the redirects? Is it possible that Google will sort things out over some time, given the fact that the new pages have correct hreflangs?

Is there stuff we could do to help ranking in the correct country markets?

[katemorris]

Hi Paris,

First, can you clarify if you are just translating the content or if you are targeting specific countries? It sounds like you are geo-targeting, but I am not sure.

Second, any page, no matter it's geo-targeting can show up in any Google search, regardless of the country of the user and content. If that is the best content for the user's query, Google will show it. This is why we see .co.uk results here in the US all the time.

Can you share what URL was redirected to what URL?