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03 / FRONTIER — INTERNATIONAL & MULTILINGUAL SEO

hreflang errors and duplicate-market cannibalisation cost visibility across borders, usually invisibly.

Correct market and language technical implementation, plus a market-expansion content plan — built from a Lisbon base that already operates inside the multi-market EU context.


02 / WHO THIS IS FOR

Who this is for

  • Profile

    Portugal or Iberia-based businesses expanding into new EU markets.

    Symptom

    Uncertainty over subdirectories versus subdomains versus ccTLDs, and what hreflang actually needs to say.

    Outcome

    A technically correct international structure Google can parse without ambiguity.

  • Profile

    Businesses already serving multiple language markets.

    Symptom

    Pages in different languages/markets compete with each other in search results instead of each showing to the right audience.

    Outcome

    Market-cannibalisation resolved, each market’s pages surfacing to the right searchers.

  • Profile

    Teams treating “international SEO” as translation alone.

    Symptom

    Pages are translated but not adapted to local search behaviour, currency or market-specific intent.

    Outcome

    A market-expansion content plan that accounts for how each target market actually searches.


03 / WHAT'S INCLUDED

What's included

  • hreflang implementation and error audit

    Across all market/language versions

  • Market-structure recommendation

    Subdirectory vs. subdomain vs. ccTLD, with the reasoning behind it

  • Duplicate-market cannibalisation resolution

  • Market-expansion content plan

    Which markets, which pages, in what order

  • Currency, geo-targeting and Search Console checks

    Market-configuration checks

  • Local-market keyword research

    Distinct from a straight translation of existing terms


04 / HOW THIS SERVICE RUNS

How this service runs

  1. 01

    Audit

    hreflang and market-configuration errors identified across every existing market/language version — a common source of invisible, silent traffic loss.

  2. 02

    Roadmap

    Market-expansion sequencing decided by real opportunity and technical readiness.

  3. 03

    Build

    hreflang, canonical and market-configuration fixes implemented; new-market pages built from local-market keyword research, not machine-translated from the source market.

  4. 04

    Report

    Visibility tracked per market separately — a market gaining traffic while another declines is a real, reportable pattern this catches instead of masking.

hreflang and configuration fixes are typically live within 3–4 weeks; new-market visibility takes longer to establish and is reported market by market, honestly, rather than averaged into a single misleading site-wide number.


05 / WHAT YOU GET REPORTED

What you get reported

  • hreflang error count

    Number of unresolved hreflang/return-tag errors across tracked market versions, driven toward zero.

  • Market-level organic visibility

    Rankings and traffic tracked separately per target market/language, not blended.

  • Cross-market cannibalisation incidents

    Count of queries where the wrong market’s page currently outranks the intended one.

See the full reporting method →
Example monthly report layout MONTHLY REPORT — EXAMPLE RANKED KEYWORDS 128 CWV PASS RATE 94% AI CITATIONS 6
Example report layout — illustrative, not a real client's data.

06 / PRICE FOR THIS SERVICE

Price for this service

International & Multilingual SEO is delivered inside Authority (€3,200/month). Add to cart.

Retainer

Authority

Full-stack, for competitive or multi-market ambitions.

€3,200/month + IVA
  • Everything in Growth
  • Ongoing AI Search Optimisation — entity clarity, extractability, citation tracking
  • International/multilingual technical work where relevant
See the full pricing ledger →

07 / SERVICE FAQ

Service FAQ

Q1 Do we need a Portuguese base to benefit from this?

No — a Lisbon base is an advantage in understanding the EU/PT regulatory and search context, but the service covers any market expansion.

Q2 Is this the same as just translating the site?

No — translation is one input. Technical market-targeting (hreflang, structure) and local-market keyword research are what a pure translation project usually skips, and they’re what actually determines whether the right market sees the right page.

Q3 How long before a new market shows real traffic?

It varies by market competitiveness and how established the domain already is there — no fixed date is promised, but market-by-market progress is reported monthly.

Q4 Can you handle Portuguese, Spanish and English at once?

Yes — multi-market, multi-language configurations are the core of this service, not an edge case.

Expand across markets without losing visibility in any of them.


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