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Thank you so very much!

OK that makes sense. So let me get this straight;

1. USA/Worldwide version - /
                                - hreflang="en" (Can I use "x-default" here instead?)
                                - no targeting within Search Console
2. SEA version - /as/
                                - hreflang="en-HK" (repeat for all SEA territories)
                                - no targeting within Search Console
3. UK version - /uk/
                                - hreflang="en-GB"
                                - targeting United Kingdom on Search Console

• use a selector pop up using IP sniffing to detect if the customer is viewing the wrong version of the page/site.

Just to let you know, none of the above has been implemented yet, I am still planning the best course of action.

The majority of our clients browsing from Hong Kong have their language set to "en-US" and "en-GB". Is there a way to target these users without showing them the USA version of the site?

The USA version of the site needs to be the global one because the majority of our clients are based there.

Would you be willing to take this conversation offline into email? I would very much appreciate the help.

Thanks for your detailed response Gianluca! Very helpful.

One question, am I also able to include hreflang="en" under the /as/ subfolder? Looking at Analytics and 80% of our Hong Kong clients are browsing in either en-US or en-GB (complicated).

Hey Dmitrii, sorry I should have mentioned in the question I understand how href lang works. I am more asking for the best practice implementation when the language might possibly vary? With US and Worldwide and the Hong Kong and Asian territories.

Greetings Moz-Hive mind! I'm hoping you can help me on the internationalisation conundrum below;

We currently have a website with three distinct 'locales' US, SEA and UK we automatically redirect customers using IP recognition to a locale which matches, we also determine their currency based on IP. The issue we currently have is a lot of duplicate content and no use of href lang or rel=canonical tags etc...

My proposed structure would be to create a locale based directory for the three locales we offer.

• / - being US and most other Worldwide
• /uk - being UK
• /as - being Hong Kong and other Asian territories.

How would you suggest we set up the href lang tags for these? Because technically there are going to be multiple language possibilities within. Our main customers are English only if this helps.

Also as a secondary question, how should I set up the Google Search Console settings for each of these directories?

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks for the responses! Very helpful advice.

This figure includes links that sit within our navigational menus. Is there a way to block this somehow so that Google and Moz do not read them as 'internal links'?

Thanks in advance.