MultiLingual SEO

[learnerseo]

Hi All SEOGurus,
I needed some suggestions regarding multilingual SEO. One of my client sites is constantly pestering me with the idea of ranking well in round the world domains of Google. But unfortunately I am not having any clue, how to execute it.
Do I need to create a separate page, with the content entirely in Chinese, as a landing page, if I am targeting Google.cn??
Wont that be regarded as a doorway page and eventually be considered as a spam by the Search Engine??

[ulrich]

One solution I have in mind is to use subdomains even though they are seen by SE as different domains.
Check webmastertools on Google. There is a feature that can map folders or subdomains on your site to specific locations.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by ulrich

One solution I have in mind is to use subdomains even though they are seen by SE as different domains.

That is absolutely wrong. For Google subdomains are seen as directories.

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by learnerseo

Hi All SEOGurus,
I needed some suggestions regarding multilingual SEO. One of my client sites is constantly pestering me with the idea of ranking well in round the world domains of Google. But unfortunately I am not having any clue, how to execute it.
Do I need to create a separate page, with the content entirely in Chinese, as a landing page, if I am targeting Google.cn??
Wont that be regarded as a doorway page and eventually be considered as a spam by the Search Engine??

If it is site is a translation in Chinese, it is absolutely OK. If you could get a .cn domain for that, it would make more sense too.

[ulrich]

Originally Posted by Webnauts

That is absolutely wrong. For Google subdomains are seen as directories.

I am not sure if you can prove it. But from my knowledge you are wrong to say this quickly that I am wrong. Look again, and you will find out that sub domains are considered as separate sites.

Subdomain vs Folders : Seo Forum

[ulrich]

This might be what you are referring to: Google, Subdomains, and Branding : SEO Book.com, but this is the reality today: ebay - Google Search

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by ulrich

I am not sure if you can prove it. But from my knowledge you are wrong to say this quickly that I am wrong. Look again, and you will find out that sub domains are considered as separate sites.

Subdomain vs Folders : Seo Forum

Sure.

And Matt Cutts, Google's Engineer is kidding. Right?

Subdomains and subdirectories

Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by learnerseo

Hi All SEOGurus,
I needed some suggestions regarding multilingual SEO. One of my client sites is constantly pestering me with the idea of ranking well in round the world domains of Google. But unfortunately I am not having any clue, how to execute it.
Do I need to create a separate page, with the content entirely in Chinese, as a landing page, if I am targeting Google.cn??
Wont that be regarded as a doorway page and eventually be considered as a spam by the Search Engine??

Here I contributed with excellent tips a long time ago: Multilingual websites and internal link structure

I am sure you will find in my posts there everything you need.

Good luck.

[ulrich]

Thank you for putting me in the right direction. This is just recent. (Maybe 2 months).

You are right, in this case then using www.domain.com/be makes sense.

Nice argument and very constructive

[Webnauts]

You are always welcome Urlich.

PEACE!

[incrediblehelp]

I agree with John, make sure you build out separate TLDs for each country targeted. No subdomains or subdirectories