Multilingual site - Best choice?
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Quick question for a site that has the same content but in a different language (not machine translated) on seperate pages.
Say I have:www.mydomain.com (which is in English)
www.mydomain.com/ES (which is in Spanish)
www.mydomain.com/NL (which is in Dutch)I don't want to limit the ie. Spanish to only Spain so geotargeting isn't necessary
What is the best/correct setup for the pages?
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I think that the proper way to do it is through budget primarily
if you can afford to build a website that is going to be able to geo-target using the right TLD for whatever country I would utilize geo-DNS to accomplish this however I would create new content for each page the reason for this is because of the
hreflang
issue talked about here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igbrm1z_7Hk
you may also utilize tools from http://www.neustarlocaleze.biz/directory/clarity.aspx
sincerely,
Thomas
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Dear Philip,
You may also want to check out the SEO Cheat Sheet by Danny Dover:
http://moz.com/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet-2013-editionThe hreflang could also be used with or without geo targeting but would you want to target people in The netherlands for the NL lang? Then I would use it.
It all depends on your means to and end for what is best to be used
Regards
Jarno
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You may find this video from Matt Cutts helpful - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWx31GeQWY
There have been a few topics similar around here if you search.
Have you looked at extensions? (e.g .NL )
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Personally I would do the structure you have mentioned above but refrain from using the geo targeting tool but it could get messy in the event of having UK and US versions?
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