Sir Lethal
New Member
I'm currently putting together a proposal for a client of mine, and would like some input about the woolly area of regions and languages.
My client is targeting several regions of the world, some of which speak different native languages. Currently they have one website in English and therefore are doing very well in that single region.
I'm considering the idea of using a domain for each region (ccTLD) that is powered by the same CMS so contains mostly the same content (price variations).
To deal with the languages we would use the standard 2 letter folder code. So URLs would look a bit like:
domain.com/en/...domain.com/es/...domain.co.uk/en/...domain.co.uk/es/...domain.com.au/en/...domain.com.au/es/...
Therefore all the domains would support all the languages. Some other possible features:
geo tag pagescanonical tags on language specific pages to the domain best for that languageoption to vary a pages content based on the domain as well as language. e.g. different home page content per domain
So to some questions:
Would this work? The new domains will start off with little ranking, but they can locally target. Would they end up performing better than the current domain for the regions they target, and therefore be beneficial in the long run?
How do I best handle pushing visitors to the best content for them. Do I just give options to switch country/language or try and automatically redirect based on IP?
How do I handle the home page. Do I redirect to the default languages folder or maybe have the default language become folder
My client is targeting several regions of the world, some of which speak different native languages. Currently they have one website in English and therefore are doing very well in that single region.
I'm considering the idea of using a domain for each region (ccTLD) that is powered by the same CMS so contains mostly the same content (price variations).
To deal with the languages we would use the standard 2 letter folder code. So URLs would look a bit like:
domain.com/en/...domain.com/es/...domain.co.uk/en/...domain.co.uk/es/...domain.com.au/en/...domain.com.au/es/...
Therefore all the domains would support all the languages. Some other possible features:
geo tag pagescanonical tags on language specific pages to the domain best for that languageoption to vary a pages content based on the domain as well as language. e.g. different home page content per domain
So to some questions:
Would this work? The new domains will start off with little ranking, but they can locally target. Would they end up performing better than the current domain for the regions they target, and therefore be beneficial in the long run?
How do I best handle pushing visitors to the best content for them. Do I just give options to switch country/language or try and automatically redirect based on IP?
How do I handle the home page. Do I redirect to the default languages folder or maybe have the default language become folder