Hmmm, If i have a page that i want to appear in, say google.es, but the domain is a .com, registered in UK and hosted in UK.... What must i do? Can someone give me their opinions on which os these i should do, and which they think are more important?... 1) Get backlinks from .es sites... 2) Make a /es folder for a spanish translation of the site 3) Use spanish keywords as anchor text? 4) Forget it, just get pis**ed on the beach? 5) Write to google and ask nicely? 6) Buy a .es domain and host the spanish version seperately? ( I thought about this, but surely it would be best to have all on the same domain, but have a /es folder if anything... all links go to same domain then... - am i right? Anywayz, these are my idea's, but i am no expert, so could i have some others opinions please??? Thanks! Ps. I want to be in the UK search as well of course!!! - but i can handle that, its the internation googles i not sure about... ie. does it matter that the site is reg. to UK as a .com, or is it more important its in spanish... - Can an english site, IN ENGLISH list high in google.es for competitive keywords??? Thanks everyone! Mike Ps. i am abroad at the moment... so have to go to bar's with free wifi to use the net (Damn!) - this means i may not be able to respond quickly, so dont think i am ignoring you guys if i dont reply straight away!!! ( it also means i may make a fwe spelling erroeresadzzzz...)
I'd do the spanish version of the site in a /es folder and then start link building from sites in Spanish (not only from Spain). I think language is they key point here, more than the location of your hosting. And I wouldn't worry about the .es thing, you can rank a .com site in google.es with no problem.
Ah, cool... Cheers. So, as long as the pages linking to my spanish language site are in spanish, its not too important if the pages are from spain... How about blog posts in spanish... say from a mixed language site? - that be okay you think? - site in english, but whole post + anchor text in spanish... any point in that i wonder??? Cheers for your input! - all advice is great! Mike Ps. so, you based in madrid then? - are you spanish or english?
I was wondering the same thing myself. Blog posts could be 300-500 words written in the foreign language of your choice, but if its published on an English blog (every other post is in English), would the links be downgraded ?
The way I see it you must be holiday checking out your site wondering how this, how that, what can i do. Do this all the time, checking from different countries. It is simple for any website Build your site, build the links to it and no matter where in the world it is hosted and what the domain name is you will climb to the top of the results in due time .
Yer, i am not sure... anyone had experience of this? Maybe i will give it a try and post the results here! But in the meantime, if any1 has any idea's!
Just want to share what I got from my experiences. When you go to Local Google there are 2 way to search. One is by directly inputing the keyword in the search box and the other is by filtering the search with option "pages in Spain only". I assume you want the latter? Anyhow... For first one, your page/site content should be written in the particular country language and maybe the mentioning of word 'Spain' sitewide will help. For "pages in Spain only", the factors are from your site IP address, the .es domain for your site and the .es backlinks. Try getting yoursite.es and it will surely show up in "pages in Spain only" SERP, after it get indexed of course. Then after getting your site in the SERP of the type of search you want, the usual building backlinks will get you better ranking. Yes, site in English do rank well in geocentric google SERP like google.es. Seen that very often. Hope that helps.
You can rank dot coms in whatever Google. I successfully rank .coms in French Google, for example. Just make sure you get some good backlinks containing the keywords you'd like to rank for (pointing to your /es folder).
Yep, experience i have is that you should host your site in the country where you main market is, and then translate the site to your secondary markets. The popularity that the spanish part of the site site will get from the domain overcomes the small disadvantage of being hosted in a different country. I takes more time and effort to build the popularity of a domain from scratch. I see a lot of .com.mx (mexico) and .com.ar (argentina) in google.es, just because they´re in Spanish. Same with the blogs. That post will have chances to rank in google.es, but less chances than if you have a significant number of pages in Spanish. It´ll depend on how much of an authority the domain is. Normally, if we´re talking about a small domain, you´ll need to build some content in Spanish and get some links from Spanish sites to the spanish content, make submission in Spanish directories, etc... I´m a Spaniard
mate, i found a quite nice article about how to optimise your site for the latino market: hxxp://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3626523
hmmm i also need to find bloggers and article directories that sell posts / take submissions. Anyone here that can handle spanish article submissions?