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Managing an international website isn’t as straightforward as running a site focussed on a single local market. There are several issues that need to be handled very precisely in order to maximise your traffic while maintaining a user friendly design.
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from turnkeywebsites 1425 Days ago #
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Great artice. Especially, "let your users switch versions" and make it easy for them to do so! This issue was so frustrating for me last week.

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from doodan 1425 Days ago #
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Thanks for this. Last week i was searching for information about however could not find much about how search engines actually treat multiple language versions for duplicate content when on one domain.It’s also great to know that you can set up individual country targets for your site’s different language sub folders in Webmaster tools. Many thanks Patrick!

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