SEO Best Practice with Multi-Language Sites

MPJHorner

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Dec 8, 2016

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I manage some large ecommerce sites which has many domains .co.uk, .com, .fr, .es, .it - etc etc
They are also translate and targeted specifically at the expected country.

Some say .de pages however turn up on .co.uk google search.

I was hoping we could compile a list of the best ways to works with international sites from a SEO perspective.

All help much appreciated, i will update this post with the good info to create a list.

 

pipi13

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• #2

I'm also very interested in this. I feel like there is hardly any useful information about foreign SEO out there.

 

MPJHorner

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• #3

I have already implement alternative pages with this https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077

 

pipi13

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I specified my target country in google WMT but I'm also considering hreflang

 

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danbarqami

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Great, I am also interested on this. Are the language specific content on subdomains or subdirectories? This is crucial for effective approach to the issue. Google treat subdomain as entirely different sites.

 

MPJHorner

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• Jan 17, 2017
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pipi13 said:

I specified my target country in google WMT but I'm also considering hreflang

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Yes, this is something we already. hreflang is on my to do list. (Hopefully going to get benefits here as Google list it!)

danbarqami said:

Great, I am also interested on this. Are the language specific content on subdomains or subdirectories? This is crucial for effective approach to the issue. Google treat subdomain as entirely different sites.

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We use different domains, much cleaner.

 

Stufferizer

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• Jan 19, 2017

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I believe it's quite simple:

1. correct html lang
2. correct hreflang if you interlink other sites
3. (most importantly) country specific domains

Multi-Language sites don't work, period. Why would amazon have different domains if the .com would rank in any country just with different languages?