We grow UK brands into new markets, with a team that has taken sites into the US, Australia and across 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 translation bolted on is the commonest reason expansion fails.
Word-for-word translation rarely works. Keyword research has to be native to each market, and even US English differs enough from British to matter commercially.
By applying geo-targeting and other localisation signals, we reach the right people in your target countries, whatever language they speak.
Several URL structures are available for international targeting. We choose based on your authority, your resources and how genuinely separate the markets are.
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Book a Free Strategy CallEntering a market takes more than appending a country name to existing pages. It takes local relevance, local links, local trust, and since Brexit, clear answers on duty and VAT.
From locally relevant content through to technical work, international link building and geo-targeting, we handle the whole route 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 UK that handles everything from keyword optimisation to language nuance and beyond.
We know how much it matters to reach customers in every corner of the world, and exactly how to optimise 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 specialise 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 specialising 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 shifts more than most disciplines because it turns on how Google resolves competing regional signals.
Still have questions, or unsure whether international expansion is your right next step?
International SEO is the work of making a site rank beyond your home market: 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, and post-Brexit questions about VAT, customs and returns that now shape whether European buyers convert at all.
It scales with the number of markets and whether translation is needed. Adding the US and Australia to a UK site is far cheaper than entering the EU, where language and compliance both come into play.
It opens demand you already have product-market fit for. For UK businesses the search work is rarely the obstacle; duty, VAT registration and returns handling usually are.
Country subdirectories with correct hreflang, localised content, local currency and clear duty and shipping terms. Translation alone is not localisation, and Google can tell the difference.
PPC buys immediate presence and stops when you stop paying. SEO takes 6 to 18 months and compounds. Most successful entries run PPC to validate a market, then build SEO behind it.
It varies by market. Entering Ireland from the UK is cheap and fast; entering Germany or France 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 hold no local links move considerably slower.
They solve different problems. Local SEO wins customers near your premises. International SEO wins customers in other countries. Running both usually means running two separate strategies.
Only if your customers do not speak English. For US, Australian, Canadian and Irish markets the work is country targeting, spelling and local search behaviour rather than translation.
By researching how each market actually searches. American and Australian English differ from British English in product names and terminology often enough to matter commercially.
Hreflang and country targeting can be self-implemented with good developers. The harder part is knowing which markets justify entry and what people actually search there.
When domestic demand is largely captured and you can service another market properly. Since Brexit, European expansion also needs VAT, customs and returns handling settled before the traffic arrives.
It tells Google which language and country version to serve. It matters most across UK, US, Australian and Irish English pages, where getting it wrong sends the wrong version to the wrong market.
Subdirectories in most cases. They inherit the main domain's authority, which usually outweighs the geo-targeting advantage of a country domain starting from zero.
It does, though the friction is higher post-Brexit. Duty, VAT registration and returns need answering on the page, because they are now the questions that stop European buyers checking out.
6 to 18 months to meaningful traffic, longer without local links or brand recognition in that market.
Publishing a US version that is the UK site with the spelling changed. Google treats those as duplicates and often ranks the wrong one.
Reporting is built so progress and impact are legible at a glance. Here is what you get:
Reports cover keyword positions, organic traffic, conversion rate and engagement, connected to revenue wherever the data supports it. The aim is to show whether the work is paying, not to fill pages.
Reporting is built around how your business makes decisions. Some clients want a single revenue number; others want the detail to defend a budget internally. We shape the format to that rather than to what is convenient to produce.
Reporting is built around how your business makes decisions. Some clients want a single revenue number; others want the detail to defend a budget internally. We shape the format to that rather than to what is convenient to produce.
Podcasts build audience and earn the kind of citations UK press and AI assistants both pick up, which is worth more than the download count implies.
Free Growth Plan
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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