: Google caching subdomain as root domain Recently I've been working on regional targeting for my client and I've noticed that the Australian Google view uses the American website instead of Australian

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Recently I've been working on regional targeting for my client and I've noticed that the Australian Google view uses the American website instead of Australian website and caches it. It copies the American description & title rather than using the Australian site's one.

Here are the regional targeting meta tags for the site:

<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com" hreflang="x-default" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://au.example.com" hreflang="en-au" type="text/html" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com" hreflang="en-us" type="text/html"/>

I've used the Moz forums and no-one was able to identify the problem, and I'm hoping someone here would be able to assist me.

Also note, that through accessing the Australian website normally, it does not use US site data. I also re-cached the website recently so it wouldn't be 'old'.

Thanks.

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@Pierce454

It looks like you have the US version as both the canonical and alternate version:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/about"/>
<link rel='alternate' hreflang='en-us' href='http://au.example.com/about' />
<link rel='alternate' hreflang='en-au' href='http://example.com/about' />

Fix these tags and also check out this resource on locale-aware crawling by Googlebot: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6144055?hl=en

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