Hi Mozzers,
I am working for an international client, in a highly regulated industry. As such, their international set-up is slightly confusing.
They currently operate websites across multiple countries (with ccTLDs), as well as a global .com. E.g:
domain. es
domain.com etc.
Additionally, they offer multiple languages across each of these domains, which often cross over. E.g:
domain.co.uk/en/, domain.co.uk/fr/, domain.co.uk/de/
domain.com/en/, domain.com/es/, domain.com/fr/, domain.com/de/
They are not currently using HREFLANG of any sort.
Using EN as an example, this results in 6 URLs showing the same content, albeit for different languages/locations:
Main URL
domain.co.uk/en/category-A/ hreflang="en-GB"
Multi-lingual variants from same domain...
domain.co.uk/fr/category-A/ hreflang="fr-GB"
domain.co.uk/de/category-A/ hreflang="de-GB"
Cross domain variants from other ccTLDs...
domain.es/en/category-A/ hreflang="en-ES"
domain.it/en/category-A/ hreflang="en-IT"
domain.com/en/category-A/ hreflang="en"
Can anyone cleverer than myself confirm that the above would be the most effective set-up for this scenario, with each URL referencing each other in this way?
