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Multilingual SEO Advice

Posted By: swiftmed 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.seoptimise.com)
Category: SEO

From site: Creating SEO-optimized content for multilingual websites present a whole new challenge for SEO. Needing a multilingual site is a good problem to have. It usually means that you have customers in multiple countries. However, it also means you have to double or triple your SEO efforts.

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from annie7 215 days ago #

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One question: how do you usually host those sites: at subdomains? at separate domain?

from Swensson 215 days ago #

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I prefer subdirectories at the main domain

from kevgibbo 215 days ago #

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I think this video covers it very well from SEOmoz:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-mondaysmx-west-interviews-will-critchlow-on-ranking-foreign-domains

I'd normally go for domain.com/uk /fr etc.. but there's also a strong argument for a country specific tld.

from baiduyou 215 days ago #

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@Annie - It can depend on the country - certainly when you're targeting China a dedicated .cn domain hosted within the Chinese firewall is preferable.