I have a website in english about phones, and I was thinking I could translate some articles in an other languege and post them in a subdomain for example ro.example.com, there will be the articles in roumanian, and maybe a few more in this niche, can this subdomain help the main one get a higher value? Is it a waste of time?
It's not a waste of time, but do it for the real reasons. If your content is useful to Romanians, or if you have a good percentage of readers coming from Romania or with a header language of ro set (check analytics) then it will be useful for you to do, it will add value to your website and bring you more traffic. Whether you implement this by using a subdirectory, a subdomain, content negotiation over the Accept header, or by using Index_ro.html style pages is completely irrelevant, Google (and everything on the web, bar people on digital point) focus on Pages (find a page, search pages, page rank etc) NOT websites or domain names.
Hi, Yes it will help you alot . But make sure that content of each subdomain is different and not duplicated with each other . search engine will treat each sub domain as independently and by doing this you can ahve multiple index or home pages and AS a professional SEO i think home page is a key role in website ranking and as per visitor point of view . If you link your subdomain from you home page it will share your PR factor but make sure your are doing SEO for sub domains well . Advantages of subdomains is that more of your site's results can be displayed when a user enters a query.Currently, max 3 results (of which 2 indented) per subdomain are shown in Google. If you use a folder architecture you have chance of max 3 results, if you use 3 subdomains you have chance on max 9 results.A query on let's say Microsoft can then result into articles about MS acquisitions (on business.site.com) and releases of new products (on tech.site.com).This is particularly interesting in case your site covers a wide array of topics / themes and has a large volume. Be sure to interlink to control PR dosage. CheerS!
That subdomain is fine. The only issue is content duplication. Make sure that the subdomain has unique content.
Thank you for your answers. It really helped me think more about the details that I need to handle with if I choose to make this.
blacknet has provided some good advice, I recommend that you follow it before launching the translation. I also recommend that you check out the three golden rules to check out whether the site translation makes economic sense. If you feel that you have a business case, I'd simply advise you that a subdomain is a domain by its own right, so you cannot get additional SEO juice from the main site. (I disagree with blacknet that Google only considers pages, from my experience they also consider sites, though it's the page that gets the individual ranking). On the other hand, subdomains greatly simplify page management. You also have the alternative of putting everything on the main site (i.e, not using a subdomain). In that case, make sure that you put it in a subfolder, e.g., http://wwww.yoursite.com/ro/main.html. Make sure that you have a link from the main site to the Romanian text, so that search engine spiders find it. Oh, and since the site is multilingual, ensure that you apply the rules to ensure that the search engines recognize the language of your pages!
you'll translate it? you mean post the not original article that would cost your site duplicate issue.
Subdomain is not the question and no need to worry as your domain is TOP Level TLD i.e. ".com" (its not a country TLD). And here the only thing you should keep in mind is your website and its content which is placed in the subdomain i.e. ro.example.com must be Romanian user friendly, understandable and also search engine friendly (follow the Google webmaster guidelines). all the best
Translation of the articles should not raise a duplicate content issue, check out the post that Matt Cuts wrote on that...