Ahh Dynamic Sites
So much great information, thanks to you all. I'll try to address your questions and answers here.
Conficio Said: Does your site not serve the meta tags in the appropriate language, together with the page body?
Right now, the answer is no. And I wasn't sure if it was possible because often times the static HTML sits outside the dynamic page - if I can get the DB to serve up the correct Meta Tags, we might be in business.
Excellent point about noting in the METAS that the pages are available in the other languages - I hadn't thought of it, but it will be very useful!
MathIsFun - Thanks for that link - I agree that if you are going international you need to be mindful of who you are speaking to. Unfortunately, at this point serving up multiple forms of English might be too much for my development team, but it is something to be every mindful of.
28overpar - At this point, because it is dynamic, we will be dependant on a linking strategy and advertising. We are soft launching for 3 months to work out any kinks that come out in regular use and then we will start to seriously advertise. The linking structure, however, will be built from day one.
Each language version of the site runs off one central domain - although we have multiple domains I don't think that we will be able to submit into multiple engines as they all really come back to the same address. However, I will be speaking to Google themselves about that one before making any final decisions.
Because of that, I do think that technically they are duplicate sites. However, because we are localizing Google and the others might be okay with a new directory submission.
Any more thoughts!
Thank you all very much for the food for thought!
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