Lets say you have a website in Russian under a russian domain. Let's further say you'd like your website to support multilpe languages - english and russian. You know that some people in russia would prefer to use the english version and therefore add an english version to your russian website under the russian domain. Time goes by and then you want to create an english version of your site under a .com domain and start targeting the US. You'd therefore keep your website on US servers in order to maximize the site speed. How will search engines react? Will they see your .com version as duplicate content (after the english version on the russian site)?
Yes you will get penalised for duplicate content in this example. Anything that is identical content wise will incure duplicate content penalites. It doesn't mean that you site will get banned in google, but it does means that you will not rank highly. My advice would be to write your site in your choosen language find a free translation programme that alows users to convert the content themselves into their own language when they view it. That way you avoid duplicate content penalties
Thanks for the reply. I think you're right. Do you have experience using translation programs? do they work well?
yes you should add a language translation program to your site this way your site won't get penalized as lightlysalted said