Language and keywords

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Lakis Vladimirou, Feb 18, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hello,
    I am writing in my blog using Greek language but all my keywords are all in English.
    I use my English keywords inside the content and page title tho but is the right?
    Should i write only in English for better SEO performance?

    Thank you
     
    Lakis Vladimirou, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  2. sebasago

    sebasago Peon

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    #2
    It all depends who your target audience is. Don't build your site for search engines, build it for the people who are using it. If your audience is primarily of Greek decent, I would do everything in Greek.
     
    sebasago, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  3. suichiro

    suichiro Peon

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    #3
    Definitely right! On the other hand, if you are targeting visitors from Global searches or in US, you should use write in English or your site won't be indexed by Google.com
     
    suichiro, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  4. Lakis Vladimirou

    Lakis Vladimirou Member

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    #4
    You are both right content quality should not be sacrificed for SEO purposes.

    The problem is that even my audience is greek the search queries of the subjects i write are in English, according to google adwords keyword tool.
    So my problem is that my readers are Greek but they do search in English language :)

    Thats why i have to use greek language with English keywords or only English.
    And btw the blog is only for seo purposes.
    So what is better only English or Greek + English keywords? :confused:
     
    Lakis Vladimirou, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  5. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    #5
    Use Greek keywords
    WTF would you use English keywords on a Greek site why why why ? i can't understand
     
    w3bmaster, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  6. surendrarawat

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    #6
    yes its right. you write only in English for better seo performance.
     
    surendrarawat, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  7. alia.y

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    #7
    You should go English, if you found that these English keywords has more searches then why are you going for Greek content. You should prefer English for both site and blog also..
     
    alia.y, Feb 18, 2011 IP
  8. Lakis Vladimirou

    Lakis Vladimirou Member

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    #8
    Thank you. I will use only english
     
    Lakis Vladimirou, Feb 19, 2011 IP
  9. mintoz

    mintoz Active Member

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    #9
    I think your target readers are Greek. If not, why you write in Greek language? So the keywords should also be Greek.
     
    mintoz, Feb 19, 2011 IP
  10. Lakis Vladimirou

    Lakis Vladimirou Member

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    Hello, I explain that above. Even if the readers are Greek their search queries in Google are in English. I have check this in google keyword tool. I can see that there are 2000 search queries of the specific keyword in English and lower than 20 in Greek.

    So according to that even if the readers are greek they will not be able to find my blog articles if i use Greek content, because they prefer search this topics in english. .
    I believe it will be ok to use English as most of them know how to read English and i will also solve the issue with the keywords
     
    Lakis Vladimirou, Feb 19, 2011 IP
  11. no1onsports

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    There is always the potential to mix everything. In Greece people search in English terms more than Greek. For example everyone can see through adwords that they use more the term Poker than ποκερ which is in greek..however, the first site that comes up is poker.gr which is in greek (and obviously has the right domain name).

    Its pretty tricky and not as simple as everyone suggests on that. I would say right in greek (because thats where you are targeting) but use the keywords in the same language that your customers are searching. Also focus on optimizing the site properly with links and headers. You must think on many more thing rather than just the language to rank higher..
     
    no1onsports, Feb 20, 2011 IP