How would one go about this? If a visitor comes to our site with an IP from germany, I want to serve them with our German language page. English - English, Spanish - Spanish and so on. This I can do, but what happens when goglebot comes to the site? Surely if the bot is from a datacentre in the UK the /en/ page would display. Which page would it index and how could I get the those different pages to begin showing in the results for those specific languages?In the same breathe then, with regards to backlinks - I intend getting BLs (english) to point at the /en/ page and different BLs (German) pointing at the /de/ page. Would this work, am I on the right track?Any input?ThanksHi DodgeCroft - I also want to go multilingual in a similar way - though it sounds like you're further down the road than I am. Could you let me know what you are using to make the country selection?As regards Google, then I would think having a comprehensive site map should tell Google what it needs to know. A plain html site map should be good enough but prob better still if you do it the Google way:http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login?sourceid=gsm&subid=us-et-about2PS - is your country selection fully auto or do you let the visitor confirm the choice?Well it's pretty straight forward. Check out 'Ripe' - http://www.ripe.net/You can get a pretty comprehensive list of IP's and the relevant countries.When a visitor arrives they're directed to the relevant language page, though bearing in mind that I'm in spain and speak english, the choice still needs to be displayed so a different language can be chosen.
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