: Multilingual website SEO indexing I've recently develop a website with multiple languages. The main goal was that people living in UK would be able to find the website using google.co.uk (not

@Cofer257

It's normal to rank first with a local domain. Just make sure you have implemented the best practices for multilingual sites:


Implement hreflang tag
Create a XML sitemap for each language (and submit to Google Search Console)
Use correct (one to one) internal linking
Get local links for each domain (to gain popularity)

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@Courtney195

Because your domain is .co.uk, it will rankly highly on Google.co.uk for users in the UK. People in the UK generally speak English and so your English pages naturally rank much higher overall.

Have you tried using google.fr and seeing if your French pages rank there for people in France?

If you are trying to target French speaking people in the UK the correct lang tags should be:

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/fr/index.php" hreflang="fr-gb" />


And I think that tag should be placed on both your example.com/index.php and example.com/fr/index.php

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