Is rel=alternate href=lang is advisable on ccTLDs ?

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    One of my clients has multilingual websites with some content variations but 60% of the content on site remains the same.

    Is it still advisable to use:

    for example- <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://www.example.co.jp/" /> element when ccTLDs are in itself strong signal for Google to display result in respective countries

    1. example.com
    2. example.co.uk
    3. example.co.jp
    4. example.de
     
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  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Huge mistake, this is like committing SEO suicide. Instead of publishing duplicate content on ccTLD to target different markets, you should have published the translated content on the main .com site.
     
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    You may like to read a few good articles !

    [ googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html ]

    [ seomoz.org/ugc/folders-vs-subdomains-vs-cctld-in-international-seo-an-overview ]


    Any matured SEOs out here who can help us in answering the question asked above
     
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    You may like to read a few good articles !

    [ googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html ]

    [ seomoz.org/ugc/folders-vs-subdomains-vs-cctld-in-international-seo-an-overview ]
     
    scottaleger, Jul 2, 2012 IP