I have website in English and services which we provide re in the UK but we want to attract customers from other countries not English speakers ( Germany, France, Spain and so on) What will be the best way to promot our website in those countries? We have webs in different languages, all of them are on subdomains. Sould we promote subdomain webs or we can promote our main website in English? The problem is most directories do not exept websites on different languages. I will appreciate your advice
I would submit the website to directories that target different languages. Each country has their own niche directories. You would want the different language traffic to go right to their respective language page. If you just send them all to your english page, more than half of them will leave right away. You might also want to hire a foreign language speaking freelance writer. Get them to write you some articles to submit to article directories that accept foreign languages.
You can also exchange links with local websites. This way you will get relevant links to your website. If you know other languages you can try to join local forums and get some traffic and also link juice from the links in your signature. Or hire foreign forum poster.
one of the best way is buying blog posts. you can find popular blogs in different languages and buy posts. also, you can buy banner ads.
Here's another angle that would work. buy a country specific domain name .de for germany create a new site written in german host the site in germany (host the site in the country your targeting) optimize the keywords in german create backlinks from other related sites written in german and preferably hosted in germany use the same method for each country your targeting using the translated country specific text. link out from your UK site to the country specific sites instead of the subdomains you may also need to link back to the UK site from the country specific sites to help with conversions. I've tested this method for a client operating in a different niche and it has worked quite well. Good Luck
you can try promoting the site on directories just for that country, that way you will get relevant links for that language, and you will rank better for those countries
If you are doing different languages you must submit to directories of that language. All seo needs to be targeted for each language.
ooohhh... another one is by choosing quality Classified posting site. Your ads can be direct at you targeted countries.... Just like me - at Australia....