SEO Rankings in other countries

Do you sell products in countries other than the UK? Or are you looking to broaden you horizons and start selling your products or services to users from other countries in Europe or even further afield. If so then you will need to think about your SEO rankings in other countries.

Unfortunately it is not a case of that the search engines will make your current UK search engine rankings worldwide you will need to start using search engine optimisation for other countries. There are various steps that you will need to complete to gain SEO rankings abroad and this will depend on how keen you are to succeed in other countries, for example if you would like to be as successful in France as you are in the UK then the best things to do would be to create a new website in French, have the website hosted locally in France and buy a domain for that country.

Search engines will give websites that have local domains priority over websites that don't so buying a domain wisely will help when it comes to foreign SEO, hosting your website in a different country will also help to boost your SEO rankings in other countries and this is because search engines will check the ip address of your website and will more often than not provide you with extra ranking power. More importantly you will need to make sure that the keywords that you optimise against are relevant for the local culture, for example certain countries will use a completely different keyword or search term for a product that we would use so understanding the local language and culture will help you immensely.

There are simpler and cheaper ways to gain SEO results in other countries that what we have detailed above but these other options will not be as effective. For more information on multilingual SEO contact your SEO specialits SEO Junkies today.