Hey Kate,

I remember this question as well it's a year old now great catch and they answer. Thumbs up.

Imagine if you tried to target all of  different French  dialects   if you tried to target all of that with one url  you would not be able to have the subtle differences between French and Canadian French

just like a US English and Canadian English there are minor details that make a huge difference to Google. Also I'm sure this is been sa just like in US English and Canadian English there are minor details that make a huge difference to Google.

Also I'm sure this is been said  however I think it is worthwhile to host your website in the country you're targeting.  Canada in this case  (This not that it is going to hurt you badly)  as long as hosting it's very fast were you going to target. if you do not however there is evidence pointing to the IP still making a large difference after Geo targeting. )

See Richard Baxter's article on using a UK IP versus US IP on the exact same hosting company and getting a pretty large difference in results based on the IP address  after Geo targeting.

https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/

What's interesting is WPE (the host) was using a proxy so hosting was still out of the UK  Data center but was assigned or US IP addres.

I hope that helps and agree 100% with what Kate said. She really knows her stuff.

Tom

If you do not want to take the gamble with I-frames and want to be certain that your content is found by Google I would use Wistia it comes with everything that you need in order to have a video indexed the proper embed code, video site map and schema  you can use third-party companies like "speechpad" to transcribe what is being spoken. Wistia also offers  A similar service.

If you do choose to use YouTube  I would reembed the video with embedly rember you will have to create your own video XML sitemap, add your own schema  you may use  to YouTube content to a website without having to worry about Google not being able to index because the I-frame is converted into a readable code.

This is a great resource on video SEO. Because I can tell you using Frist hand by using this method it will work.

https://www.distilled.net/blog/video/video-seo-tactics-to-get-ranked/

Sorry I did not explain more in my first response.

Tom

iframes do not get crawled but there are other ways or Google to see videos that link back to your site Moz uses Wistia.com  they are spectacular and their embed code and site map make them easily findable

Okay, I'm assuming that you are using a .com domain TLD?

If so, there are two choices number one you could purchase the .ca version of your domain, and 301 redirect each page over. This will let Google know you wish to target.you want to geo-target Canada

Or in Webmaster tools/search console

Go into Google Webmaster tools now search console and add the www. & non-www. To your search console. Once you have done this click on geolocation and target Canada as the country, you wish to geo-target.

• See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en
• Or
• http://webdesignfromscratch.com/seo/geotargeting-with-google-webmaster-tools/
• https://blog.kissmetrics.com/geo-targeting/

List off TLD's you can geo-target  (Remember .ca does this automatically.)

• https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en&ref_topic=6002454
• it's never a bad idea to host the site in the country being targeted.
• (even though Google says IP's don't matter)
• I honestly think they do to a small amount.
• Make sure the site is fast in Canadia
• Ensuring that you are using the various language differences between Canadian English and American English. Is a must!
• I recommend Find FAST hosting in Canada e.g. Peer 1 and speedy rails as great hosting companies in Canada.

I hope this helps,

Tom

Daniel is 100% right about that. Rather not it's hreflang  or simply stopping a bunch of links into every  page on your website.

It kills your crawl  budget.

See; https://www.deepcrawl.com/knowledge/webinars/top-5-tips-successful-seo-audit/

Daniels advice is excellent I have a client who received 20 as much traffic after approximately seven months of removing links that were on every single page. This led to googlebot indexing much deeper and being able to index things that it was ignoring before.

Hi Dan

"if i have multilingual sub sites (Wordpress Multi User envrionment) then I should enter the language specific social accounts into the appropriate language sub site Yoast OR as per the sentence at the top of Yoast page: "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below", just put the main social accounts in here. Im trying to work out if when they say main here they mean the original main English social account ? "

When using multilingual or geo-targeting a.k.a. Hreflang there is an additional plug-in you will want to use ( I like wpml)

See: http://wplang.org/hreflang-attributes-wordpress/

I like: https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/using-wordpress-seo-with-wpml/?

Yes you also want to add a notice of these alternative pages via OpenGraph:

• The locale these tags are marked up in. Note that OpenGraph _does _use an underscore.
• An array of other locales this page is available in.

More on that for instance on the Facebook developers pages.

&

https://yoast.com/hreflang/

this is the accounts page you are discussing?

http://i.imgur.com/fxsPr5H.gifv

https://neonbrand.com/seo/ultimate-guide-setting-wordpress-seo-yoast-plugin-version-221/

http://kb.yoast.com/article/219-getting-open-graph-for-your-articles

https://yoast.com/social-media-optimization-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/

Social – WordPress SEO by Yoast

This is a great new section to version 2.0 of the Yoast SEO plugin. He’s really brought together all the social requirements together in one place. It’s really self explanatory, just make sure you fill out as much of each tab as possible.

Accounts

Get your social accounts setup! Then come back here and plug in the URL’s (or in Twitter’s case, the username… come on Yoast-onians, be consistent!

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