Expand globally with international domains

coleatkinson
Shopify Staff
141 13 74

Shopify merchants can now assign individual domains to a country/region. This allows you to offer a default currency and language (or set of language options) on individual domains in order to provide a localized browsing experience to your buyers all around the world. This feature is available to merchants on Shopify, Shopify Advanced, and Shopify Plus plans.

 

For example, let’s say you are a merchant based in the United States, currently selling both within the US and to Canada on your website shop.com. You can now:

 

  • Use your existing shop.com domain to target the United States with USD as the default currency and English as the default language
  • Setup shop.ca or ca.shop.com to target Canada with CAD as the default currency, English as the default language, and French as a language option.

When using international domains and multiple languages, Shopify automatically handles all hreflang and SEO best practices to give your site the best chance of being indexed regionally by search engines. If a buyer happens to land on the wrong domain, you can provide on site currency and language recommendations using the Geolocation app.

 

International domains rely on merchants selling in multiple currencies with Shopify Payments, and to offer multiple languages you must offer translations via a compatible 3rd party translations app.

 

NOTE: Merchants are responsible for adding their own top level domains (TLDs) or subdomains for use with this feature. International domains does not alter the domain purchasing flow or guarantee the availability of new domains for you to purchase.

 

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If you have any questions or feedback about this new feature reply below as we’d love to hear from you. If you looking for troubleshooting support please get in touch with our support team, or create a new topic providing as much detail as possible.

Cole | Product @Shopify 
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mandysaffiliate
Visitor
1 0 0

I can not get the geilocation app to work on my shopify store?

Zuschlafen
Excursionist
48 1 3

Hello,

I have online shop in Germany. (www.zuschlafen.de) and i also took another domain (www.zuschlafen.at) for Austrian market. 

 

I added Austria as another Market on Shopify settings. It's active right now. (you know Germany and Austria speak German and use Euro) so, i don't need 2 different languages or currencies. 
My questions:

1- I added these hreflang below, is it correct ? or necessary ? 

Zuschlafen_1-1681479076407.png

 


2- I set domains like that on photo below, is it correct ? (specially for zuschlafen.at, Domain type

Routing domain)

Zuschlafen_0-1681478862998.png


3- Do we know how long does it take for Google to list my products on Austrian market ? or should i do something else to list my products ? 

Thank in advance

coleatkinson
Shopify Staff
141 13 74

You do not need to add the hreflang tags - we do this for you automatically.

 

It's hard to say how long it will take Google and other search engines to index your domains. But your best bet is to request a recrawl from within Google Merchant Center to ensure this happens as quickly as possible: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl

Cole | Product @Shopify 
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