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SEO with special characters?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Djohn, Jan 25, 2006.

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    I've been wondering about this for some time.
    I run a few non-english sites in languages that use some special characters like the letter ø.

    Now, how should I present these characters? Would it be preferable to use either ø or %c3%b8 in the content?
    My concern is primarily how SE's interpret these characters, when crawling my site.
    So far I've presumed both would work, but it would be nice to hear a few oppinions on the subject.

    Also, what would work better in URL's? Would /keyword-w%c3%b8rd/ work better, or should I just put it as /keyword-wørd/ ? I know Google encodes ø to %c3%b8 in their own URL's, and although it looks terrible, I speculate that this is the way to go.

    Up untill now I've just been using an alternate version (oe) in slugs.
    I'm not that concerned about being crawled - that works fine - but I would like to make sure that queries on wørd actually matches my content, as well as URL's, so any advice would be great.

    Thanks.
     
    Djohn, Jan 25, 2006 IP
  2. hans

    hans Well-Known Member

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    i have multilingual page with de/en/fr/es/bg/ru and other languages
    and of course i use UTF-8 for all and have zero problems with top SERPS in any of the languages
     
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    Yeah, thats it, use UTF-8 in your sites! :)
     
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    Yeah, I suspected as much.
    I guess I'll just have to live with those awfull looking URL's...


    Thanks
     
    Djohn, Jan 25, 2006 IP