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Mulitlingual website

by Venus Brown
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Hey guys ,
My client have a website in English and he's willing to launch a Spanish version. So should I recommend a new website or sub domain in latter language or can I advice him to put a translator on the native site?? What do you think will be more beneficial from users and search engine's perspective?

Thanks for every suggestion.
Venus
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  • Profile picture of the author Sclark
    The best way to go about it is to create a country-specific top level domain for the Spanish version. That is, example.es Then you just provide an easy-to-spot link to it from your English site and vice versa.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Venus Brown View Post

    Hey guys ,
    My client have a website in English and he's willing to launch a Spanish version. So should I recommend a new website or sub domain in latter language or can I advice him to put a translator on the native site?? What do you think will be more beneficial from users and search engine's perspective?

    Thanks for every suggestion.
    Venus
    Wikipedia runs sub-domains & does well. Just saying.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebMeUp
    You can start a new site with the country-specific extension as Sclark suggests.

    You can start a sub-domain and be ok with that.

    You can even add some pages in Spanish to the existing domain, yoursite.com/es/page1... yoursite.com/es/pageN.

    Each of these options will work just fine if you come up with a viable strategy of promoting the Spanish version.

    Still, if yoursite.es is available, I'd grab this one because it's the most natural option.
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    • Profile picture of the author Venus Brown
      Originally Posted by WebMeUp View Post

      You can start a new site with the country-specific extension as Sclark suggests.

      You can start a sub-domain and be ok with that.

      You can even add some pages in Spanish to the existing domain, yoursite.com/es/page1... yoursite.com/es/pageN.

      Each of these options will work just fine if you come up with a viable strategy of promoting the Spanish version.

      Still, if yoursite.es is available, I'd grab this one because it's the most natural option.
      Thank you so much for your suggestion WebMeup.
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