Multilingual website or one language per website ?
- Thread starter Klauskk
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I suggest option 3: Make the site in one language. Then translate it using javascript to different languages. Bots will crawl the site for the main language, but the users will still be able to browse the site in different languages.
This, or plan B.
This, or plan B.
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IMO, seems to me the option 3 is only making the one site multilingual but not multi-regional. it cannot gain ranking advantages in local serps. such as to rank in google.fr
The OP's example is to target EU zone with sub-markets like de, fr. IMO, plan B is the way to go. with abc.com/de, abc.com/fr, targeting each market independently, with its own language.
John Michelson
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This method, in my opinion, is unsuitable since Google Translate, which uses javascript throughout the site, occasionally fails to fulfill accurate language conversion.
I would also recommend moving with Plan B.
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It works just fine. Google translate may have problem, but I am not talking about using that. We have used a similar approach in an EU company before (we had Czech, Slovak, German and French translation using js). Never had any issues. If you guys need a snippet that can do such things, lemme know. Will find it and paste it here.
Agreed. If OP is targeting multiple geo through translations (imo, not a very good way but little do I know about seo lol), Option 2 is what I would suggest as well.
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wordpressdeveloper
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Plan 2 mate
John Michelson
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As I previously stated, this is simply my view based on the use of javascript and a translator. Anyway, thank you for the clarification buddy.
That's what I'm concerned mate, I don't know if three-domain can do better in local SERPs than option B,
Do I need to differentiate them or can I JUST based the English(.com) and translate it to the target language by google translate, (I'm not good at German and French at all)
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Plan B is always the best option.
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if you take a look at those huge international corp sites, they all go with plan B now and 301 most of the local TLDs .
IMO, you need to make those multi-sites different, at least use different currency, different location, html tags etc.
Handling multi-regional sites consumes a lot of energy than you might think, if you are not good at German and French, I suggest you put all your effort into the English site.
Maybe translate and make the de. fr sites and let them age. If they have some good feedback, you can focusing on editing the geo site then. then you can translate the main english content and make necessary adjustments to localize the content, it would be much easier.
bestspinner
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multi like my web
YusufArslan
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Definitely plan B
Does planA is better than planB at ranking local SEO?