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mishimainizu
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Posted: 2006-Sep-27 07:55
I do apolgize, but despite having read all postings on how to properly set up a multi-lingual site that is not too confusing to the search bots, I got more confused myself. Please clarify this for me considering the current situation:
1 - I have a 3-language web site (the main language is Japanese and all Japanese files are in the root directory of www.xxxxx.COM). The most import language for us is Japanese.
2 - The other two languages (English and Italian) are organized in folders (/english/ and /italiano/ respectively) under the same www.xxxxx.COM site.
3 - All files of all three languages have the correct html language attribute.
4 - I am not willing to buy two more domains (JP and IT) and host all 3-language files by language in the relevant country (and I am aware that by not doing so I cannot expect to significantly improve my ranking).
5 - For my main keywords we are ranked well in Yahoo (first page) and fairly well in Google (first or second page).
My question to you is:
What is the least of the damage: keeping the other two "less important" languages in folders of the www.xxxxx.com domain or organizing them by subdomains such as EN.xxxxx.com and IT.xxxxx.com?
Really many thanks in advance for help.
Kind regards
Akira Mishima
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2006-Sep-27 16:45
I am not willing to buy two more domains
That's actually the best option, especially because of the way Google and other search engines handle their results regionally. Unfortunately, as long as you have it hosted in one particular country then Google will pick which country and which language they feel you should rank for. So, if it's Japanese and it's hosted in Japan then you will rank well in the Japanese version of Google and you won't rank well in the other countries.
That said, the next best option would be to use a subdomain and put one language per subdomain. I would use 'english.domain.com' and 'espanol.domain.com'.
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mishimainizu
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Sep-28 02:57
Thank you bhartzer, I appreciate your help very much. May I ask you one more advise, please?
Currently we are very well positioned in YAHOO JAPAN for our main Japanese keywords (in Japan, unlike other countries, Yahoo is far more popular than Google). Our web site (.COM) is hosted in the USA and all files of the Japanese version - which is the most important one for our work - are in the root directory.
Nevertheless, although our ranking in GOOGLE JAPAN is not that bad either after all for our Japanese keywords (second search page), my original question was meant to seek advise on whether using subdomains instead of folders would improve the ranking of the Japanese version. In other words, by separating the English and the Italian files from the Japanese files, would the ranking of the Japanese files benefit somehow?
Thank you again and kind regards
Akira
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2006-Sep-28 16:35
whether using subdomains instead of folders
Using subdomains is most likely going to be better since each subdomain considered a separate domain.
By separating each language onto separate subdomains you're making sure that there's no confusion as to which language is where.
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mishimainizu
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Posted: 2006-Sep-29 01:16
Thank you again bhartzer for your help,
I will definitely start working with subdomains.
Kind regards
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mishimainizu
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Posted: 2006-Oct-10 12:06
Hi again,
I've got a new question on subdomains. Please bear with me again.
From my hosting server control panel I have set up two subdomains, and I am now requested to redirect these subdomains to existing pages. The pages I want to redirect the subdomains to are the very pages that are currently contained in folders, and of course I want to use subdomains to get rid of these folders.
Now, if this redirect is actually implemented (for example from english.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/english/, what search engines will see? In other words, is there anything else that I should make to avoid that search engines see exactly the same pages but with different URL (subdomain's and folder's)?
Lots of thanks again in advance
Mario Cerutti
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