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2 different languages will hurt SEO?

by vema123
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I have a domain (www.domain.com) that has ranked pretty good for several of its keywords (the posts are all in English). Now I'm considering having a subdomain (Indonesian.domain.com) of which posts will be in Indonesian. My concern is:

will this Indonesian subdomain hurt my already ranked good English keywords?

Thank you
#hurt #languages #seo
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Why do you think it would hurt? 2 different website, 2 different things.

    Just what a subdomain was designed for.

    Be sure and put links all over the English site that say read this
    in Indonesian. Even put clickable country flag like the big boys do it.

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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Yes, and also:

    1) Register the subdomain in Webmaster Tools as a different site (perfectly OK)
    2) Set the geographic target of that site in WT to Indonesia if that is where you are targetting traffic from.
    3) Make sure the meta language tags in your html are set to the ISO codes for Indonesian (or whatever the exact language/dialect would be) for the subdomain.

    There are millions of multilingual sites around, even not hosted on separate subdomains (I have one), so you should be just fine.
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  • Profile picture of the author guewarascoy
    thanks markowe..you are really great..

    I admire to make subdomain in another language
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    • Profile picture of the author azmanar
      Hi,

      From my experience, bi-lingual sites won't hurt SEO.
      I have several sites like this.

      I don't even register subdomains to split the languages.
      Each page holds 2 languages together - English and Malay.
      Also some pages are English only and some Malay only.

      Take a look at this LIVE example : www.pengasih.net

      In fact after I do this, the traffic volume increased 4 fold.
      It then stabilized at 3 fold than the previous (when they
      were using separate subdomains for English and Malay).

      And then after 4 months, it got Google PR4.

      I did the same for another site, the result is the same.

      SEO is about quality content, relevancy and a couple of tweaks.
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