Your International Traffic is Landing on the Wrong Pages
If you're running paid ads to translate traffic while your organic rankings evaporate in 14 markets, you've hit the hreflang wall.
We build international SEO strategies with proper hreflang implementation, locale-specific keyword research, and technical foundations that drive cross-border search visibility.
Google's crawler hits your French page and finds English hreflang tags pointing to a URL that 404s. Your buyer in Madrid searches a phrase native speakers actually use -- but your keyword research came from a machine translator, so you ranked for nothing. Multilingual SEO is the technical and linguistic infrastructure that makes your site legible to search engines and humans across borders. It's hreflang validation that catches bidirectional errors before they hemorrhage traffic. It's keyword research with native speakers who know what high-intent queries look like in their market. It's Next.js i18n routing, locale-specific schema, and edge caching rules so your German pages load as fast in Berlin as your English ones do in Boston. Your business doesn't stop at one language -- your rankings shouldn't either.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Hreflang Architecture
We implement self-referencing and bidirectional hreflang annotations across every language variant. For complex multi-locale deployments, XML sitemaps include hreflang entries as a fallback so nothing slips through.
Locale-Specific Keyword Research
Native-speaker keyword research identifies how people actually search in each market -- not what a translation tool suggests. We also map intent differences between regions that share the same language, because UK and Australian English users don't always want the same thing.
International URL Strategy
We design your URL structure -- whether that's subdirectories, subdomains, or ccTLDs -- based on your actual business model and target markets. Each approach gets properly configured geo-targeting in Search Console.
Technical Crawl Optimization
Language-specific XML sitemaps, canonical tags, and internal linking patterns keep crawl budget distributed efficiently across all locale versions. Nothing gets orphaned.
Content Localization Audit
We audit existing translations for SEO gaps: missing metadata, untranslated alt text, hardcoded strings, CTAs that made sense in English but fall flat in the target language. These are conversion killers that often get missed.
Cross-Border Performance Monitoring
Per-locale rank tracking, Search Console segmentation by country, and Core Web Vitals monitoring for each regional CDN edge keep everything measurable as you grow.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Eliminate hreflang conflicts that send the wrong language version to the wrong region
Automated hreflang validation across HTML, headers, and sitemaps catches errors before rankings drop
Replace machine-translated keywords with native research from speakers in each target market
Native keyword research per locale surfaces the high-intent queries machine tools miss entirely
Fix URL structures that confuse crawlers about which locale each page serves
Next.js i18n routing with locale detection and SEO-friendly URLs so structure matches intent
Stop ranking without converting because content isn't localized for regional intent
Regional SERP analysis shows who's winning, what formats work, and where the ranking gaps are
Correct missing geo-targeting configs that let Google guess your audience incorrectly
Localized schema markup per language variant for organization, product, FAQ, and breadcrumbs
Prevent duplicate content penalties caused by contradictory or malformed language signals
CDN edge optimization with locale-specific caching so pages load fast anywhere your buyers search
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Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
International SEO Audit
Week 1We crawl every language version, validate your existing hreflang tags, audit the URL structure, and identify indexation issues in Search Console for each target region. You get a clear picture of where things stand before we touch anything.
Locale Strategy & Keyword Research
Week 2-3Native speakers conduct keyword research per target market. We map intent differences, identify content gaps, and nail down the URL architecture strategy before implementation starts.
Technical Implementation
Week 4-5Hreflang tags, international sitemaps, canonical tags, Search Console geo-targeting, and i18n routing all get implemented and validated against Google's specs. No guesswork.
Content Localization & On-Page SEO
Week 6-7Metadata, headings, alt text, schema markup, and internal links get optimized per locale. We also flag content that needs cultural adaptation beyond what a translator would normally catch.
Monitoring & Iteration
Week 8+Per-locale rank tracking, crawl monitoring, and Search Console segmentation go live. Monthly reports show visibility gains per market with clear next steps -- not just data dumps.
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