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Old 05-21-2006, 04:12 PM
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I don't see that presenting identical content in different languages would be discriminated against as the dreaded 'duplicate content'. In fact it would be good customer ralations and simply good manners. If the subject differs in different countries ok, but a rose is a rose in any language no matter how it is spelled or spoken.

Google gives precedence to websites in a searcher's own country, also, country specific directories and search engines only accept listings from websites in their country. It would seem logical to have separate country-specific domains, hosted in their specific country. With search words and content in their vernacular. If each country is going to be treated separately by Google and other search engines, then there should be no problem with having a website for each country in which you want your website published. And all websites should have identical content, registered and hosted in that specific country.
If there is going to be discrimination between countries and your website has a positive contribution to searchers in various countries, it is up to you to allow them to have it, the same content for each country. If Google want to do it country by country that's fine, they can't expect you to present different content for each country.
A natural progression would be that if you were presenting your website to a number of countries in which English was the lingo-franco then you would have identical websites for each country, in English, registered and hosted in that country.
It should not matter, but it would be helpful to the customer if the domain name was the same but for the country dsignator.
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