Domain with more Languages
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Hey folks!
I was wondering what you would do.
I do have a Website. The website is provided in 8 other languages. Right now every language has it's own Domain name. The domain name is always the country in the language. I'm thinking about combine everything to one domain and hope to get some great linkjuice from the other 7 domains. So it would be www.example.com/en/ www.example.com/fr/ and so on. How do you handle that.
Would this have a big positive impact on that one domain I'm forwarding to?
I really think so! -
I definitely agree going down to one domain is a good plan and janmi is correct. You will want to make sure you redirect your specific language site to the relevant directory. In regards to increasing your rankings, focus on your on-page optimizations for each language. I am currently going through this myself and got some great feedback a couple weeks ago:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/international-seo-3
In regards to tracking your success, use your analytics to track the increase of traffic per language with an advanced segment of non-paid search.
Good luck!
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I think I'll do it. Also to rank better in the other languages. Because my main language site is the strongest site of those. So rankings in the other languages should increase too - right?
thank you for your answer!
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Hi Leitpix - yes it technically should improve the domains overall authority - however as these are different languages - the relevance is not really being boosted. You should redirect each language to www.example.com/language/ and in that way your root domain should gain some more authority - but to what extent it will help you rank better in the main language - that is not so clear...
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