Re: SEO-ing a Multilingual site
[quote:] Subdomains will help, but probably the most important individual thing is to make sure that the language tags are correct. Declare lang="es", lang="en" and lang="it" the spiders will know their way. This looks obvious. It is not. Most multi-lingual sites just forget to straighten up their lang tags.[/quote]
Felt like I had been slapped round the face with a wet fish...it is sooo obvious yet I missed that one! Take it Greek is ="gr"
Interesting I have the same problem with a site in english and greek. The guy wanted Italian as well but as neither of us actually speak the language correcting the translation and answering emails was academic!
I also take it there are listing problems associated with multi-lingual sites, does it get ignored or listed on page 101 if strange text is detected like greek?
I will never offer to do another one!
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