Market selection and demand sizing.
Search demand, competitor strength, and revenue potential per country before you commit budget. We name the two markets to open first and the one to postpone.
The international SEO agency that gets you ranked in every market you sell in
One site, several countries, and search engines that need to be told exactly who each page is for. We are the international SEO agency that fixes the architecture, writes in the local language, and earns coverage in the publications your buyers there already read. Markets, targets, and dates in writing, behind a 100% guarantee.
The stakes
You rank at home and disappear at the border
Your product ships to twelve countries and your organic traffic comes from one.
A buyer in Munich lands on the US page with dollar prices and a shipping estimate that kills the sale. The French pages you paid to translate sit on a subdomain nobody links to. Google sees four near identical versions of one product page, picks one, and ignores the rest.
None of that shows up as a red line in reporting. It shows up as a market that never took off, a sales team in Germany with nothing inbound, and paid ads carrying a country organic search should be paying for. Meanwhile a local competitor with a worse product owns the results page, because their site tells Google exactly which page belongs to which country and language.
The services
International SEO services, built one market at a time
The scope comes out of your Search Console data by country, never a template.
International site architecture.
ccTLD, subfolder, or subdomain, decided against your team and budget, then URL structure, an XML sitemap per locale, and international targeting set in Google Search Console.
hreflang implementation and audit.
A full matrix with bidirectional return tags, correct language and region values, a fallback for visitors none of your versions match, and canonicals that agree with hreflang instead of fighting it.
Localized keyword research.
The queries native speakers actually type, mapped per market, with competitor analysis run inside each country rather than translated from your home list.
Content localization and transcreation.
Native language copy, localized landing pages, currencies, date formats, and calls to action that read like somebody in that country wrote them.
International link building through digital PR.
Editorial coverage in the publications that market reads, which is also the strongest link available to you.
Country level reporting.
Regional GA4 setup, localized rank tracking, share of search, AI citations, and revenue split by country.
We run this for catalogs, software companies, and enterprise sites. See ecommerce SEO, SaaS SEO, and enterprise SEO.
Multilingual
Multilingual SEO services that go past translation
A multilingual SEO agency earns its fee in the gap between a good translation and how people search. Shoppers in Mexico and Spain use different words for the same product. German compound nouns collapse three of your English keywords into one. Translate your H1 literally and you miss the head term for the market entirely.
So we build the keyword map first, in language, then write to it. Native speakers handle the copy, and we transcreate what translation flattens: headlines, product names, objections, proof. Machine translation is for scale, never for pages that have to rank or convert, because thin translated pages are how a site ends up with 4,000 URLs and no rankings anywhere.
Structure
ccTLD, subfolder, or subdomain
This is the decision that costs the most to reverse, so we make it in week one with you.
StructureccTLD, such as example.de
Choose it when
You have a legal entity, a local team, and budget per country, and local trust matters more than speed
What it costs you
Every domain starts its authority at zero and needs its own link building
StructureSubfolder, such as example.com/de/
Choose it when
You want markets live quickly and inheriting the authority you already built. Right for most companies
What it costs you
One domain, weaker country signal, so geo targeting and local links have to carry it
StructureSubdomain, such as de.example.com
Choose it when
Separate platforms or tech stacks per region leave you no choice
What it costs you
Authority passes inconsistently and you maintain more than you would with a subfolder
Most brands expanding from one strong domain should use subfolders. Move to ccTLDs when a market becomes big enough to fund its own authority.
hreflang
The hreflang errors we fix most often
- Return tags missing, so page A points at page B and B never points back. Google drops the whole cluster.
- Invalid region values, where a country code is written as a language or a market code that does not exist in the standard.
- No fallback version, so visitors your tags do not cover get whichever page Google guesses at.
- Canonicals fighting hreflang, with every localized page canonicalized to the English original. That instructs Google to ignore all of your translations.
- Tags pointing at URLs that redirect, 404, or carry a noindex.
- hreflang implemented on the template one time, then never applied to the other few thousand product URLs. Deeper technical work at technical SEO.
Global
Global SEO strategy that covers AI answers, not just blue links
A global SEO agency measuring rankings alone is measuring half your visibility. Buyers everywhere ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot before they search, and AI Overviews answers in the local language using local sources. If your German entity is thin and your German coverage is nonexistent, you do not get cited there.
So we build entity first content per market, mark it up with structured data including currency and price schema, and track citations and AI sessions by country the same way we track keywords. Generative engine optimization is part of every search engagement, never an upsell. AI SEO and SEO and GEO services.
Google is also not the only engine that matters. Baidu owns China, Yandex owns Russia, Naver owns Korea, and Bing holds real share across the West. We tell you which of those your market list actually requires.
The engagement
How the engagement runs
- 01Departed
Audit and shortlist.
We crawl every locale, pull twelve months of Search Console data by country, map your hreflang, and size demand. You get a ranked shortlist and the reasoning behind it.
- 02Departed
Architecture and technical fixes.
Structure decision, hreflang matrix, sitemaps per locale, international targeting, schema, and rendering checks so translated pages are visible to crawlers at all.
- 03Boarding
Local content and local coverage.
Native language pages built from the in market keyword maps, then our PR team pitches journalists in that country for links and brand mentions.
- 04Monthly
Report by country, then adjust.
Rankings, non branded clicks, AI citations, conversions, and revenue by market, reviewed monthly.
Why AceIt
Why hire AceIt as your international SEO agency
You have probably funded a market opening before. Twelve months of retainer, a folder of localized pages, a country where nothing ever came inbound, and an agency explaining that international takes time.
Conditions of entryin the agreement
Agreed results or your money back- Qualified organic traffic per market
- Share of search
- Citations in AI answers
A ranking position in any countrynot ours to sell
Run three markets at once and that is three retainers and three chances to end the year with nothing to show the board.
So the markets, deliverables, targets, and dates go in the agreement before kickoff, and if we do not deliver what we committed to on the timeline we committed to, you get your money back. We never guarantee a ranking position in any country, because those are not ours to sell and any agency selling them is misleading you. We commit to qualified organic traffic per market, share of search, and citations in AI answers, and the refund backs every line of it.
Two things follow from how we are built. Senior people run your account and reply in 1 to 2 hours, so a hreflang error found on Tuesday is not a Friday conversation. And PR sits in house next to search, so the links that make a new market rank come from real editorial coverage rather than a directory in a language nobody reads. Ask the rest of your shortlist to put a refund clause in the contract and see how many will.
Proof
What we can prove today
1M+Brand impressions our PR work earned Vezbi entering the United States, the market entry problem this page describes
4,200+Visits one anonymized Forbes feature sent to the client’s site
38%Increase in branded search after that feature, the searches a new market runs first
DA 94Authority of the backlink it earned, the kind a new market needs to rank
Clients have been featured in
Our PR work supported Vezbi, a community super app, through its expansion into the United States with over 1 million brand impressions, every one of them earned through organic PR, the Vezbi case study. That is exactly the market entry problem this page describes. Our Forbes program has produced 50+ placements across 12+ industries, with one anonymized client seeing 4,200+ visits, a 38% increase in branded search, and a DA 94 backlink, more at case studies. Clients have been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Wired, and the USA Today Network.
The number
What international SEO costs
Almost nobody in this market publishes a number, so here is the range. Retainers run roughly $1,500 to $15,000 a month: $1,500 to $3,000 for one or two markets, $3,500 to $8,000 for three to five countries, and $10,000 to $50,000 for enterprise programs, plus setup fees of $2,000 to $8,000 and localization around $200 to $500 per page.
Our search engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually against a 12 month roadmap, because meaningful results take 6 to 12 months and we say so before you sign rather than after. Full detail at pricing.
The fit
Who this is for, and who it is not
Admittedit fits
It fits ecommerce brands already shipping abroad on one domain, software companies whose signups arrive from countries they never targeted, exporters with distributors in several regions, and enterprise sites carrying a decade of ad hoc country folders. See B2B SEO.
Refused entryit does not
It does not fit anyone who wants a guaranteed top position in Germany written into a contract, anyone launching forty languages on a budget for two, or anyone who wants pages machine translated and left alone. Those projects fail, and we would rather say so on the first call.
Questions
Asked before every international SEO engagement
Anything else, email [email protected] and it comes back in 1 to 2 hours.
An international SEO agency makes your site rank in more than one country or language. That means choosing the site structure, implementing hreflang so each market sees the right version, researching keywords in language, localizing content, building links inside each country, and reporting per market rather than as one global total.
International SEO usually runs $1,500 to $15,000 a month depending on how many markets you open. One or two markets sit near $1,500 to $3,000, three to five countries around $3,500 to $8,000, and enterprise programs from $10,000 up. Setup fees run $2,000 to $8,000. Our engagements are mid five figures to six figures a year, priced on the strategy call and backed by a 100% guarantee.
Technical work lands fast and traction takes longer. Structure decisions, hreflang, and indexation fixes are usually complete within the first 4 to 8 weeks. Meaningful traffic and revenue in a new market take 6 to 12 months, which is what we plan the roadmap around. Any agency promising a new country in 30 days is selling you a timeline it cannot hold.
Not for pages that need to rank or convert. Machine translation misses how people search, so your headings target words nobody types, and thin translated pages get treated as low value across the whole locale. Use it for scale on low priority content, and use native writers plus transcreation on money pages, category pages, and anything a buyer reads before purchasing.
A hreflang tag tells search engines which language and country a page is intended for, so a Spanish speaker in Mexico gets the Mexican page rather than the Spanish one. Tags must be bidirectional, meaning every version points to every other version including itself, and they must agree with your canonical tags. When they conflict, search engines ignore the entire set.
It depends on your markets. Baidu leads in China, Yandex leads in Russia, and Naver dominates Korea, while Bing holds meaningful desktop share in the US and parts of Europe. AI engines now belong on that list too, since ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews answer in the user’s language and cite local sources. We scope engines by the countries on your list.
Next step
Find out which markets you are already losing
Send us your domain and the countries you sell in. Back comes your hreflang errors, the structure we would use, the two markets worth opening first, and the targets we would sign. Markets and dates go in writing, behind a 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back.
Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: you get the agreed results or your money back