Russian and Arabic SEO and Translation
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Hi guys,
We've a small 15 page site in English for renting out our own boat to tourists which seems to be especially popular with Russian and Arab visitors, so they are our priority languages for translation right now.
We would like to translate our site into a condensed single page summary for each language of the services we offer for now and trying to make it rank in Russian/Arab serarch engines.
I do some seo in English on our site and it's starting to rank well, but that's my only language, so I would definitely need to hire someone to do it for us in Russian and Arabic translation and related keyword phrases and how to rank in the search engines those countries most use etc.
Can you recommend any companies for doing this russian-seo or arabic-seo stuff? Or any other advice..
Thanks!
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I haven't used them but they were recommended to me: www.translations.com Otherwise go onto the platform of your choice - gumtree, odesk and get someone to translate it for you
If you go to this seomoz video http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smx-advanced-andy-atkins-kruger-talks-international-seo-and-yandex-whiteboard-friday A number of people in the comments identified themselves as Russian seos. A few DMs could get a Russian SEO on seomoz to translate for you (for $)
Otherwise:
Arabic SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=arabic
Russian SEO companies http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/index?q=russian
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Hi Emerald,
A single condensed page on your site won't rank well on search engines although it will help visitors who do come across your site but don't understand English very well.
To make your life easier, I would recommend:
- Choose a good content management system that already has good multilingual handling (example: Joomla)
- Set up the right project requirements (example: SEO, site architecture, contact form functionality, etc)
- Then just hire copywriters to translate your content keeping in mind keyword research in Russian / Arabic languages.
A good example of such site (Joomla, JomFish, sh404SEF) is http://www.makeuptouch.eu/
Best,
Ogy
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