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Originally Posted by mgillis
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.
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I would definitely do this. Try to get some advise from Google, when you ask them about your planned GoogleAd campaign. They might listen more carefully to you ;-)
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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.
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I don't think so. Your pages are completely different in content and do not interlink that much or fully ( It is always the same URL in the link regardless of the language.
I definitely would get some schema that serves all pages dynamically and interjects even the appropriate URL for a localized domain. There are big advantages to localized domains, such as humans feel closer to the company/service/information, search engines prefer them for localized indexes, some directories only accept localized domains and many webmasters/bloggers/... like more to link to local resources.
You might investigate if you can use a proxy server that does the "localization" part for each localized domain, while the content is static and the dynamic parts are injected by your database application. I believe this could be your best option, requiring the least resources. You could even distribute the proxy servers (if they have a decent cache characteristic) closer to the end-users, once you hit enough load to justify this. Supposedly this improves your SE ranking even more.
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