Thanks so much Gianluca, v comprehensive.

I've decided to go for ourdomain.com/es/ as a solution for spanish speakers and i'll be sure to use rel=”alternate”hreflang=”x”.

hi, we're have a strong .com domain and are looking to launch a site for spanish speakers (ie latin america + spain).

we already have various subdirectories for some foreign language sites (eg. ourdomain.co.uk, us.ourdomain.com, ca.ourdomain.com, ourdomainchina.com, ourdomainindia.com etc)

we already have a B2B site ourdomain.com-es which will remain the same.

I'm thinking best practice would be to launch translated copy for the following:

ourdomain.com/es

ourdomain.com/cl

ourdomain.com/mx

ourdomain.com/pt etc etc

firstly is this the best option?

secondly, i'm really interested to hear whether there is a less time/resource intensive route that would give us visibility in ALL spanish speaking territories?

Also - if we go with just one of the above (eg ourdomain.com/cl) how likely are we to get traction in other spanish speaking territories?

any help much appreciated!

Thanks Russ, v helpful

Our site contains a library of thousands of images which we are thinking of watermarking.  Does anyone know if Google penalise sites for this or is it best practice in order to protect revenues?

As watermarking these images makes them less shareable (but protects revenues) i was thinking Google might then penalise us - which might affect traffic

Any ideas?