International SEO for a Clothing Wholesaler
Clothing wholesaler international SEO case study: rebuilt a US wholesaler's international surface around region-specific buyer intent across EN, ES, and FR markets.
Meridian Apparel Wholesale
A New York based clothing wholesaler shipping to boutique owners and small retailers across North America, Latin America, and Europe. Strong US buyer base, minimal traffic from the other regions they already served.
Industry
Clothing Wholesaler
Focus
B2B Services & Technology
The Challenge
The site had one English catalogue targeting US buyers, no hreflang setup, and no content addressing how wholesale buyers in other regions actually search (minimums, freight, duty).
Meridian Apparel Wholesale
Selling internationally, but ranking almost nowhere outside the US.
The Strategy
Split the site by region + language
Set up proper EN, ES, and FR versions with country-specific URLs, hreflang tags, and region-relevant catalogues instead of one global site.
Localised buyer-intent content
Rewrote category pages and buying guides per region with real minimums, freight terms, and duty handling for that market.
Rebuilt the wholesale application flow
Adjusted the wholesale application per region so buyers got market-specific terms and Net-30 handling matched their reality.
Aligned internal linking per region
Locked each region's internal link graph so authority stayed inside that region instead of leaking back to the US surface.
Old single-region site
Meridian Apparel Wholesale
- —English US-only catalogue
- —USD only
- —No hreflang
- —One wholesale application
New multi-region structure
Meridian Apparel Wholesale
- ✓EN / ES / FR versions
- ✓Region-specific catalogues
- ✓Full hreflang mapping
- ✓Market-specific Net-30 terms
Region split - ILLUSTRATIVE Site split into EN, ES, and FR versions with country-specific URLs and hreflang tags.
Keyword Movement
| Keyword | Before |
|---|---|
| ropa por mayor estados unidos | not ranked |
| wholesale womens clothing canada | #38 |
| vetement en gros usa | not ranked |
| boutique wholesale supplier mexico | #42 |
Representative results based on comparable engagements.
The Spanish and French versions cannibalised each other.
The initial hreflang setup let Spanish and French versions of shared SKUs compete for the same regional queries. I fixed the region-language mapping and rebuilt the internal linking so each market had a clean surface, and rankings settled within four weeks.
We now get wholesale applications from boutiques in markets we barely knew existed. Organic drives real pipeline.
Client name changed for privacy.
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