Site With "MULTIPLE" Languages? SEO issue?

[Seofarmer]

My site is mainly English at the moment, and I see a bunch of visitors from Germany as well. I am wondering if its worth making a separate page/site for those visitors? (or do most people use google translator anyways?)

Will making a completely new page in German helps in terms of SEO?
for example: mydomain.com/ger/contact-us etc.?

[yukon]

If you setup each additional language as a sub-domain like wikipedia does + heavy internal keyword linking you should be good to go.

[Seofarmer]

how is using the "google translator" bar different from "a static translated page" in Google's eye? (SEO perspective)?

[XIIIzen]

It would be interesting to find out, since I would like to do a site focused for two languages.

My best guess is the same as yukon suggestion, subdomains could solve it all. But it would be some extra work. Maybe I should just stick to English.

[Seofarmer]

Originally Posted by XIIIzen

It would be interesting to find out, since I would like to do a site focused for two languages.

My best guess is the same as yukon suggestion, subdomains could solve it all. But it would be some extra work. Maybe I should just stick to English.

yeah. I agree with Yukon also.
But i am just trying to find out the difference between user using "google translation toolbar" vs. "a static translated page" in Google's perspective.

Are they the same? If a static fully translated page does no advantage, i wouldnt bother making a new page and sub-domain for it. It will be just a waste of time?

[XIIIzen]

Originally Posted by Seofarmer

yeah. I agree with Yukon also.
But i am just trying to find out the difference between user using "google translation toolbar" vs. "a static translated page" in Google's perspective.

Are they the same? If a static fully translated page does no advantage, i wouldnt bother making a new page and sub-domain for it. It will be just a waste of time?

Perhaps the difference is in the coherence of the content, after all even with the good translations services that google provides, the translation is not perfectly done, if content quality is a factor in SEO (and I believe it is) there is nothing that could beat a manual translated page.

Of course pure theory here, I have no real data about this.