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Hi Anderson,

Just because you can see pages with the site search command (site:) it doesn't mean that they'll be ranking.

This is very top level but indexing can be a 3 step process with discovery, caching and "ranking". It could just be that those particular pages have just been discovered and cached but have not yet been associated with any result value to rank yet.

Obviously, there a ton of other potential reasons why those particular pages are not ranking. Without knowing which pages you're referring to, it's impossible to diagnosis the problem properly.

Analytics is showing a substantial decrease in referring traffic from Google specific regional domains like .ca, .co.uk, .de, etc vs an uptick from .com starting as of March 2018.

Did anyone note when this change happened when Google stopped directing traffic to their regional domains? Was there any press about it (couldn't find any). Using a VPN for different countries, I compared regional specific domain SERPs vs .com and they're pretty much identical.

Thanks!

The way you laid it out, this would not be a duplicate content issue and search engines would view them as two different pages. You're targeting two different terms with unique content for each page.

It's expected that some internal pages will have some compound keyword crossover with the home page.

This is definitely a tough one & unfortunately, you'll have to most likely find a local ISP within each country.

1and1 is international but to get a geolocalized C-class IP you do have to contact each 1and1 country office separately; i.e. if I want a German & Spain IP, I have to call Germany & Spain 1and1 offices (not centralized). They do have great packages & systems but support is sub-par at best (this may have changed from a year ago).

I did work with one company that could potentially provide you geolocal IPs: www.mavenhosting.com. They are located in Quebec, Canada and I was able to get Spain, Italian, French & Germany IPs (I think they get them from 1and1) but had to buy blocks of 5 per country. Price was OK & service again was sub-par. Email works best with them. Unfortunately, the entire site is in French but they do have one or two folks who speak English.

Hope this helps & let me know if you have more questions about Maven.

Cheers

Looks like it was back in Oct 2017 when Google made the change for searches to correspond to user location instead of domain: https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-results-more-local-and-relevant/