We grow American brands into new markets, with a team that has taken sites into the UK, Australia and Europe.
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Real brands we have grown with SEO and AI Search, across ecommerce, lead generation and local.
Domestic and international SEO are different disciplines. Treating the second as the first with a translation layer is the usual reason expansion stalls.
Word-for-word translation rarely works. Keyword research has to be done natively in each market, because people describe the same product differently.
By applying geo-targeting and other localization signals, we reach the right people in your target countries, whatever language they speak.
There are several URL structures available for international targeting. We pick based on your authority, your resources and how separate the markets genuinely are.
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Book a Free Strategy CallEntering a new market takes more than appending a country name to your existing pages. It takes local relevance, local links and local trust.
From locally relevant content through to technical work, international link building and geo-targeting, we cover the full path into a market.
Global SEO campaigns are a different game from local SEO, with their own set of hurdles to clear.
When you’re ready to take your business to the next level, partner with an international SEO agency in the US that handles everything from keyword optimization to language nuance and beyond.
We know how much it matters to reach customers in every corner of the world, and exactly how to optimize your site to do it. Our international SEO strategy helps you rank in global search results, draw the right local traffic, and convert with confidence.
Our Process
A proven four-step process that turns one strong domestic site into a search presence that wins in every target market.
We map demand, language and competitors in each target country so you invest where the opportunity is biggest.
We optimize your domain strategy, hreflang and site structure so Google serves the right pages to the right regions.
We localize content properly and build region-relevant links so you rank like a local in every market.
We track rankings, traffic and enquiries by country, then double down on the markets delivering the best returns.
“The traffic to our website increased by a whopping 65%, leading to a significant improvement in our transactions by 15%. Their innovative strategies helped us achieve a 22% increase in organic revenue.”
“Partnering with the team at Kia Ora has been an absolute game-changer for our organic growth. In just last month’s data alone, our non-branded search revenue is up over 41%. They execute a highly tailored strategy that delivers measurable revenue growth.”
“So happy with our results. Our organic web visitors more than doubled in 5 months, with sales coming through pages we run no paid advertising on. Always great to chat to Dan and Ben for extra inspiration.”
“They are metric-focused, which is really important to us as an eCommerce brand. We’ve seen consistent growth in organic traffic and revenue, and their team always ties activity back to measurable results.”
“Kia Ora Digital have been our SEO partner and the results have genuinely exceeded our expectations. From the start they took the time to understand our business and our products, then built a clear, considered strategy to match.”
“From the outset, they took the time to understand our brand, our audience, and our growth goals. Their approach is data-led, transparent, and performance-driven.”
“Dan and Ben helped with our small OSH consultants business here in New Zealand and the sales just keep coming! Well done and I will recommend them to other businesses looking to grow.”
“Partnering with Kia Ora Digital has been one of the best decisions we’ve made for our business.”
“Only 3 months in and they have already exceeded our expectations. Dan knows his stuff. We only wish we had chosen Kia Ora earlier instead of some of the other cowboys in the industry.”
Here at Kia Ora, we specialize in helping ecommerce brands break into international markets with smart, scalable SEO strategies.
Whether you’re targeting Europe, APAC, Latin America, or beyond, we’ll tailor your SEO to each region, language, and audience.
With proven experience in global campaigns, you can count on us to help you grow where it counts most. Ask us about launching your international SEO strategy today.
Kia Ora Digital is a leading digital marketing agency specializing in international SEO services. Our team of experts is committed to helping businesses expand their online presence and reach a global audience.
We stay current with how international SEO actually behaves, which changes more often than most disciplines because it depends on how Google resolves competing regional signals.
Still have questions, or wondering whether international expansion is the right next step?
International SEO is the work of making a site rank in markets beyond your own: the right country versions, the right language signals, and content written for how people search in each place.
Traditional SEO competes in one market. International SEO adds country and language targeting, hreflang, currency and fulfilment questions, and the problem of near-identical English pages competing with each other.
It scales with the number of markets and whether translation is needed. Adding the UK and Australia to a US site is a fraction of the cost of entering non-English markets, because the content largely transfers.
It opens demand you already have product-market fit for. Most American businesses expanding abroad find the hardest part was never the search work, it was fulfilment and support in the new market.
Country subdirectories with correct hreflang, localised content, local currency and clear shipping terms. Translation alone is not localisation, and Google can tell the difference.
PPC buys immediate presence in a new market and stops when you stop paying. SEO takes 6 to 18 months and compounds. Most successful market entries run PPC first to validate demand, then build SEO behind it.
It varies enormously by market. Entering Canada from the US is cheap and fast; entering Germany is neither. We model each market separately rather than quoting a blended figure.
6 to 18 months to meaningful traffic. Markets where you already have brand recognition move faster, and markets where you have no local links move considerably slower.
They solve different problems. Local SEO wins customers near your premises. International SEO wins customers in other countries. A business doing both is usually running two distinct strategies rather than one.
Only if your customers do not speak English. For UK, Australian, Canadian and Irish markets the language is shared and the work is about country targeting, spelling and local search behaviour.
By researching how each market actually searches. Terminology, product names, seasonality and buying norms differ enough that a translated page frequently targets terms nobody uses.
Hreflang and country targeting can be self-implemented if you have good developers. The part that usually needs help is knowing which markets are worth entering and what people search there.
When domestic demand is largely captured and you can service another market properly. Expanding search before you can fulfil, support and return goods in that market produces traffic you cannot convert.
It tells Google which language and country version to serve. It matters most where you have near-identical pages for several English-speaking markets, which is exactly when getting it wrong causes the wrong page to rank.
Subdirectories in most cases. They inherit the authority of the main domain, which matters more than the marginal geo-targeting benefit of a country domain that starts from nothing.
Localise. Translation converts words; localisation changes examples, currency, units, regulation references and search terms, which is what people actually search on.
6 to 18 months to meaningful traffic, longer where you have no local links or brand recognition. Content alone rarely carries a new market without some authority behind it.
Duplicating the domestic site with the spelling changed. Google treats those as the same page, and the wrong regional version usually ends up ranking.
Reporting is designed so you can see progress and impact without interpretation. Here is what you receive:
Reports cover keyword positions, organic traffic, conversion rate and engagement, tied back to revenue where the data allows it. The point is to show whether the strategy is working, not to fill pages.
Reporting is shaped around the decisions you actually make. Some clients want one revenue figure each month; others want segment detail they can take into a board meeting. We build the format around that rather than around what exports easily.
Reporting is shaped around the decisions you actually make. Some clients want one revenue figure each month; others want segment detail they can take into a board meeting. We build the format around that rather than around what exports easily.
Podcasts build audience and generate the citations that increasingly feed AI answers, which makes them worth more than their download numbers suggest.
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See exactly how to win rankings across every market you sell into, on Google and in ChatGPT answers, with a country-by-country plan built to drive more leads and enquiries from your highest-value regions.
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