Hi vcj and the rest of you guys

I would be very interested in learning what strategy you actually went ahead with, and the results.   I have a similar issue as a result of pruning, and removing noindex pages from the sitemap makes perfect sense to me.  We set a noindexed follow on several thousand pages without product descriptions/thin content and we have set things up so when we add new descriptions and updated onpage elements, the noindex is automatically reversed; which sounds perfect, however hardly any of the pages to date (3000-4000) are indexed, so looking for a feasible solution for exactly the same reasons as you.

We have better and comparable metrics and optimization than a lot of the competition, yet rankings are mediocre, so looking to improve on this.

It would be good to hear your views

Cheers

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,