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Hi Gianluca,

Sorry for the delay!!!

Thanks for your answer. I just got what I needed

Cheers

Hola Gianluca,

Thanks for your prompt answer

Just one note - Spain is the market for both my Spanish and foreign users. That's why I need to geotarget users searching from Spanish IPs even though their language is Brazilian, Chinese, Swedish and so on. I don't need to target English speaking people in other countries

In a nutshell, the Spanish version of the site would target all the users in SPAIN who speak Spanish (Spanish, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinian....)

While the English version would target the "rest-of-the-world-users" in SPAIN either who speaks English (American, British..) or who speaks another language but search (i suppose) in English (Brazilian, Japanese, Chinese).

What you think ?

Cheers

Hi there,

I’ve got a question regarding SEO and Geotargeting

The following is my business scenario.

My business is based in Spain and its goal is to sell a product for both foreign students from all around the world that come to study here in Spain and to Spanish students as well.

Considering this scenario and the fact that for the resources I have at the moment I can just maintain two versions of the page I decided that the best option would be to establish two page versions – one in Spanish and one in English both with very different content.

NOTE – The main goal is to rank for different keywords according to the language. Therefore, the content will be different because I’ve conducted two types of keywords semantics strategy using Adwords Keyword Planner - One with Spain as country and Spanish as language, the other with Spain as country and English as language

Ideally the Spanish version would serve results for users searching in Spanish (Spanish, Mexican, Argentinian, Peruvian..) while the English version would serve either users searching in English being English their native tongue (American, British, Australian) or users with a nationality that doesn’t belong to a country where English is the official language but still (I suppose) search in English (Chinese, Brazilian, Swedish, Japanese…)

I thought that the best option would be to create two different and separated domains

www.example.es and www.example.com

Indicating in GWT that for both the domains the country is Spain.

And then I would use the following hreflang attribute to indicate the language.

For www.example.es

And so on….

While For www.example.com

And so on….

My question is, do you think this configuration is correct for my needs and goals. Do you have any suggestion? Can you see any pitfall?

Thanks a lot for your help!!!

Thanks a lot for your answers...it's all more clear now.

Have a lovely day

Thanks for your replies

The sites will sell the same product but will have different brand name and each of them will belong to a different country with different languages. So it is possible for me to transfer the same site structure and translate the same content (or at least 95%) but I don't want the sites(brand) to be related.

Therefore the possibility of adding hreflang tags to point from site1 to site2 might be not the best option since I don't want them to be associated, right? Yet I don't want to risk a penalization...What do you think?

Cheers

Hi There,

I’ve got a question. There are two website that are under the same proprietor but must stay not related (different brand, different IP, different country, different language). The question is: Does google penalize one of the site if I entirely translate the content from site 1 to site2?

Thank you very much for you input

Hi Gianluca,

Thanks a lot for your contribution.

Yes it sounds a mistery to me as well. If you get further clues on the topic please let me know

Cheers

Hi there,

I've got a question related to the location of the queries shown in GWT.

My company operates just in Spain but according to GWT the majority of my queries comes from Sweden. Let's say 75% Sweden, 20% Spain, 5% rest of the countries.

Of course I've set as Internatinal Targeting Spain as country,

How could this be possible considering that spanish it is not the main language in Sweden. Can this be changed?

Thank u

Yes my impressions increased. I daily check my rankings with incognito window in chrome and mozilla and they reflect the actual rankings. I forgot to mention that lately even my direct as well as referral traffic went down compared to the previous year. I checked also my index status and all the URLs I want to be indexed are actually indexed in google.

I can't find any reasonable solution

Hello There,

My question is the following:

How come my rankings are much higher than when I started with the optimization process (1 year ago) but my organic traffic is lower compared to the previous year (it didn't increase at all)?

NB  - I haven’t received any penalization and the keywords I am targeting are definitively searched and are the most important for my company.

Thanks a lot