International SEO That Opens Global Markets
We help ambitious brands reach global audiences with SEO strategies tailored for international search engines, languages, and regions.
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International SEO
If your business serves more than one country and your international SEO isn’t sorted properly, you’re probably confusing Google – and your customers – more than you realise. One bad hreflang tag and suddenly your UK users are landing on the Australian site, your US page is nowhere to be found, and half your content is duplicated in five different languages.
International SEO is the process of getting all that untangled. Whether you’re expanding into Europe or already operate globally, we’ll help you get found in the right country, in the right language, by the right audience – without wrecking your search visibility in the process.
This isn’t about quick wins. International SEO services are about structure. Discipline. Local nuance. It’s about giving search engines the right signals and setting your content up properly from the start. Done right, it can be the difference between plateauing and scaling properly across borders.
What is International SEO?
International SEO is the process of optimising your website so that it performs properly in different countries and languages. Not just technically – but contextually too.
That means setting your site up to tell Google exactly what version of each page to show in each region. It means not cannibalising your own rankings. It means translating things properly, not just running them through DeepL and hoping for the best.
It also means understanding how people search differently in different markets. A UK user looking for “cheap car insurance” doesn’t behave the same as someone in Germany searching for the exact same thing. Cultural intent, phrasing, even the way people use Google varies massively.
With our international SEO agency, we help you build a strategy that works in each country – rather than cloning your .co.uk site and changing the flag in the corner.
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International SEO Services
Some companies think international SEO just means “add more flags to your homepage” and set up a couple of folders with translated pages. That’ll work for about a week, until Google starts picking the wrong ones to rank, your organic traffic falls off a cliff, and your customers can’t figure out which version of your site they’re on.
We don’t do guesswork. We follow the right signals, structure the thing properly, and help you expand in a way that’s sustainable.
Here’s what that usually includes:
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Full Domain Strategy
Do you need separate domains? Subdirectories? Subdomains? We’ll figure that out properly based on your tech stack, goals, and the countries you’re targeting.
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Hreflang Mapping & Tag Implementation
One wrong hreflang tag and your whole structure can break. We’ll generate, validate, and implement your hreflang tags correctly – even if you’ve got dozens of language-region combos.
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On-Page Content Localisation
Translation isn’t enough. We work with proper localisation – rewriting headlines, calls to action, even the order of information if needed – so that users in each region actually engage with the content.
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Technical SEO Audit for Global Performance
We run a full crawl to identify any duplicate content issues, broken redirects, slow loading regions, or conflicting canonical tags.
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Search Intent by Market
A page that works for Canada won’t always work for France. We map keyword intent across each market so you’re answering what they search – not just what sounds right in English.
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URL Structure & Site Architecture
Whether you go with /fr/ or fr.example.com, it has to be clear and consistent. We help plan out the full site structure in a way Google understands.
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Google Search Console Setup Per Region
We help you set up, separate and monitor each country/language profile in GSC so you can track performance properly and spot issues early.
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Regional Backlink Strategy
We don’t just build links – we build local ones. Country-specific citations, media mentions, partnerships – all the signals that help your site rank in-region.
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Why RS Digital for International SEO?
We’ve helped companies move from a single-country setup to operating across five, ten, sometimes twenty different markets. Some are eCommerce platforms with region-specific products. Others are service-based and need to be found in multiple languages without splitting their brand.
We’ve worked with teams in the UK, the EU, the US and Australia, and we know how search engines behave differently in each – not just because of language, but because of structure, competitors, and trust signals.
Because we’re not a giant agency, we don’t get buried in internal chains of command. We work directly with your content, SEO and development teams to get things done properly. You’ll speak to the same people throughout, and you’ll actually see things being implemented – not just planned.
International SEO isn’t something you bolt on after the fact. It’s something you plan for properly – and we’ll help you do that.
Contact RS Digital Marketing for a Free SEO Health Check or speak direct to one of the team on 01282 452096
How the Process Works
Initial Chat
We’ll get an understanding of which regions you currently target, which ones you want to move into, and what infrastructure you’ve got in place right now.
Full Audit & Discovery
This includes a full crawl, GSC analysis, language mapping, page structure review, canonical check, and backlink overview per region.
Global Strategy Blueprint
We map everything out: hreflang setup, new domain/subfolder structure (if needed), language-specific content gaps, and technical priorities.
Localised Rollout
We don’t do everything in one go unless you need us to. Usually we’ll phase it – starting with the highest priority regions and building out from there.
Monitor & Optimise
We keep tracking each region individually. What’s ranking? What’s cannibalising? What’s underperforming? And what needs further localisation?
International SEO – More Than Just Translation
A lot of people assume international SEO is mostly language work. But most of the heavy lifting is structure and search behaviour.
It’s making sure your UK pages don’t outrank your Canadian ones in Canadian search results. It’s making sure your server can actually serve pages fast enough in Singapore. It’s working out whether the US site should be on a different subdomain entirely.
Most international SEO problems aren’t visible until they start costing you rankings. Duplicate metadata. Conflicting canonical tags. Unintentional cloaking. Pages blocked to certain bots.
And most translation projects don’t handle nuance. They don’t account for how people actually search in different countries. They just swap the words and hope for the best.
We don’t guess. We map it out properly, do the checks, and make sure your site is communicating clearly to search engines and to users – wherever they are.
Let’s Have A Chat
Expanding into international markets is exciting – but if your SEO isn’t set up right, you’ll miss out on most of the opportunities before they even see your site.
We’ll help you get the structure right, implement things properly, and build a solid foundation for long-term visibility – not just a short-term boost.
Call us on 01282 452096 or email [email protected] – and we’ll help you get your international SEO sorted from the ground up.
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