My google ranking in English and from U.K

[Daniel951778]

Hi, appreciate any help my website is a .com domain and all written in English. Im based in Spain and use Ionos . when I do a search for my main keywords from Spain in English I have a good ranking. But if I simulate the search in English and from U.K it holds a really bad ranking. Also I noticed that if I simulate from UK in English there is a term next to the serp "translate this page" but it's in English?
Not sure why this is happening......I have just deactivated a plugin called GTtranslate ....waiting to see if this was Responsible.
Any comments would be appreciated. I only have the .com domain on the site. Thanks in advance

 

[hipcat]

Where is your hosting server located?

 

[Daniel951778]

Daniel951778

Many thanks for getting back. In Spain, Madrid.

 

[hipcat]

hipcat

That sounds like the problem then, as server location is one of the ranking factors. The closer your physical server is to your target audience, the better it will do because of language and load speed. The further away your server is, the slower the speed will be when fetching contents, and even a fraction of a second can make all the difference. Plus, your server configuration would be in Spanish internally, so that's why it wants to translate. I've had that problem before myself.

 

[Daniel951778]

Daniel951778

Many thanks Hipcat....will look into it!! Thanks again for getting back.

 

[HughBriggs]

The "Translate this page" tag in SERPs usually appears when search engines detect a mismatch in the website's language settings or metadata. GTtranslate might have contributed by adding language attributes that flagged your site for translation. Deactivating it is a good first step. Next, ensure your website's metadata and language tags are explicitly set to English (`lang="en"`). Use Google Search Console to check how Google is indexing your pages and fix any language or region-specific issues. Also, target the U.K. audience by creating content tailored to them and building backlinks from U.K.-based websites.