Dear Community,

we are reaching out to you because we have that problem that many important URLs are not indexed because Google defines pages from other country domains as canonical. About our service, we run an online letter mailing service and we cooperate with the local post office in different countries. Therefore we have different offers per country, so we decided to use country domains (pingen.com, pingen.de, pingen.ch, pingen.at, pingen.nl, etc.). For example in Germany and Switzerland we provide the content in german and the content is around 90% the same. To help Google identify the correct page, we have included the canonical tag and the various href-lang tags in the code.

We have checked in advance if same content on different country domains would be a problem and based on the research it should not be a problem. However, many important pages are listed in the Search Console in the category: Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user. For example, for the page pingen.de/en/email-letter-service/ the following url is set by Google as a canonical URL pingen.ch/en/email-letter-service/ and the correct page is not indexed.

This is why we kindly ask for your help. We hope that based on our explanation and the images we provided we could add the needed context for you to be able to help us :)!

Best regards Lena Furtwängler