Hello,

I have a question in regard to international SEO and the hreflang meta tag. We are currently a B2B business in the UK. Our major market is England with some exceptions of sales internationally.

We are wanting to increase our ranking into other english speaking countries and regions such as Ireland and the Channel Islands.

My research has found regional google search engines for Ireland (google.ie), Jersey (google.je) and Guernsey (google.gg).

Now, all the regions have English as one their main language and here is my questions.

Because I use hreflang=“en-gb” as my site language, am I regional excluding these countries and islands? If I used hreflang=“en” would it include these english speaking regions and possible increase the ranking on these the regional search engines?

Thank you,