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What's the difference between 'en-gb' and 'en-uk; when choosing Search engines in campaign set up?
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Hi
What's the difference search engine wise and which one should I choose, i presume GB since covers entire British landmass whereas UK excludes Ireland according to political definition, is it the same according to Google (& other engines) ?
All Best
Dan
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Looks like this has been a bug since 2011? (When looking at the thread https://outdoorsrank.com/community/q/uk-and-gb-when-selecting-targeted-engines-in-campaign-management.)
Jon from Moz said in a comment from 2014 that they would be digging into the problem and updating... but no updates as of today 4/30/2018.
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Using en-UK is a mistake, should be using en-GB
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Moz should be using the ISO standard, which is en-GB http://www.andiamo.co.uk/resources/iso-language-codes
Seems they are confusing matters as well as people.
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Thanks for this guys. I was also confused.
Lynn - When you say GB is the mistake and will be phased out the only confusion here is that with Yahoo and Bing they only offer a GB option and no UK option. So will all GB options be phased out? or just for Google and Google Mobile?
Thanks
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No worries Dirk
All BEst
Dan -
Thats great thanks Lynn, i just had a response from Moz too saying they will phase out GB so use UK ideally
Thanks everyone
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Hi Dan
Sorry - my mistake - when I was replying I had the href lang tag in mind. Check the link in Lynn's answer.
Dirk
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Hey Dan,
Its a bit confusing and has been for a while! See: https://outdoorsrank.com/community/q/uk-and-gb-when-selecting-targeted-engines-in-campaign-management. Results should be the same between them anyway but Moz is saying that GB is the mistake and is due to be phased out.
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Hi Dirk,
Thanks so much for confirming that !
So is it simply an error that Moz Analytics campaign set up keeps it as an option ?
All Best
Dan
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