InterSystems is hiring marketers to localize campaigns in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, but its site already publishes about 26,800 URLs across 20 country folders, many of them English copies of US pages. The EMPI certification page, for example, exists as 20 identical English pages, each claiming to be the original, tagged "en-JP", "en-BR" and "en-CL", and "en-BE" twice. Search engines then choose which copy to show, split signals across duplicates, and can send a Chilean or Japanese buyer to an English page under a local URL.
First action
Export all country sitemaps and mark which URLs are translated, using the html lang and a text match against the US page.
How to measure it
Organic demo requests from non-US folders
- Now
- –
- Target
- +20%
- By
- 2 quarters
Steps
Inventory
All 20 country sitemaps, matched to US paths and compared by text.
Web and SEO lead 1 week
Decide per page type
Translate, localize, canonicalise or redirect.
Web and SEO lead 3 days
Fix hreflang
Valid language-region codes; one entry per URL; only real translations.
Web and SEO lead 1 week
Fix lang attributes
Match the language actually on the page.
Web and SEO lead 2 days
Trim sitemaps
Country sitemaps list only their own translated or localized pages.
Web and SEO lead 2 days
Pick pages to translate
Top 50 demo-driving pages for Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Marketing Manager - South East Asia 2 weeks
Monitor
Search Console indexing and clicks by country folder.
Web and SEO lead monthly
Why it works
Classify every country-folder URL as translated, localized (local proof, contacts, events) or copy. Point copies at the English master with a canonical tag (or remove them from the country sitemap), keep hreflang only between real language versions with valid codes (nl-BE, fr-BE, es-CL, ja-JP), fix wrong lang attributes, and redirect copies that have no local value. Then spend the localization budget the new hires bring on the 50 pages per market that drive demo requests.
Fewer duplicate URLs concentrate ranking signals on one page per language and make each translated page the clear answer for its market, so regional marketers get traffic from the work they localize.
Ready to use
ChecklistCountry-folder cleanup
[ ] Export the 20 country sitemaps from robots.txt [ ] Tag each URL: translated / localized / copy [ ] Copies: canonical to the English master or redirect [ ] hreflang only between real translations, valid codes (nl-BE, fr-BE, es-CL, ja-JP) [ ] html lang matches the page language [ ] Country sitemaps list only their own pages [ ] Search Console property per folder; track clicks and indexing
Risks and how to handle them
Traffic dips while search engines re-index
Change one country folder first and compare.
Country teams want their own URLs
Keep localized pages; only pure copies are consolidated.
Evidence
- Your websiterobots.txt lists 20 country sitemaps besides the US one; together they hold about 26,800 URLs, against 1,660 in the US sitemap. The /bnl-nl sitemap alone has 1,436 URLs (1,028 of them on the same path as a US page), /uk 1,547, /jp 1,590, /cl 1,442.Source
- Your websiteThe InterSystems EMPI Technical Specialist certification page is published as an identical English page in 20 country folders (/jp/, /cl/, /br/, /de/ and so on), each with its own canonical tag and html lang="en", and hreflang tags labelling them "en-JP", "en-BR", "en-CL" and "en-BE" twice (both Benelux folders). The homepage hreflang tags the Dutch Benelux site "en-BE".Source
- Your websiteSample of country-folder pages (October 21, 2026): /fr/ blog posts and certification pages in English with lang="en"; /de/products/trakcare/lab-enterprise/ in English; /cl/ product advisories marked lang="es" with English titles; while /jp/products/healthshare/ and /jp/news/ pages are properly translated into Japanese.Source
- HiringMarketing Graduate (Dubai, posted October 5, 2026), "with a particular focus on Field Marketing": supports "regional campaigns, events, customer engagement activities", gets "involved with the development and localization of campaign materials, presentations, email communications, event collateral", and will "Monitor campaign and event performance ... registrations, attendance, engagement, leads, and follow-up activity".Source
- HiringMarketing Manager - South East Asia (Singapore): leads marketing across "Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines" with "integrated marketing campaigns across digital, content, events, social media and demand generation", "Account-Based Marketing (ABM)", "customer stories, webinars", "marketing automation tools (HubSpot desirable)" and "consistent brand positioning across Southeast Asia", in "one of our fastest-growing regions".Source