Dear all, We are planning to build a multilingual site and some company members suggested that we can let website visitors come from various countries (different languages) go to the homepage url by default but only towards the language version site he is using. We use ip to differentiate which language version of the webpage will the visitors go to. I have some feelings that this might not be helpful for the whole part of optimization of our website. However i just could not figure out what to say or explain to support my proposal of using different tlds for each country. Here is some questions which i would like your kind help. (1) Am I right that if we use automatic location detection will harm our long term seo project? (2) If it is harmful. Why is that so? (3) What is the better way for multilingual site? THank you very much
Hi, Surely you or more concentrated towards offering quality services to your visitors. this may hurt you in short run but definitely help you in building a brand name. if multilingual or Auto IP redirection will hurt SERP why most of online SEs and news sites prefer it... . my best wishes for your projects.... I am planing same for http://www.infinityleadz.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6860320126300142609&q=matt+cutts&hl=en Matt Cutts explains in the video above that as long as you give the same content to google as you would any other ip, (you get country, it's USA, show USA flag, etc), you will be fine.