Planning multilingual site, what would be the best choice: a) htttp://domain.com/country b) htttp://country.domain.com/ c) multiple htttp://domain.tld with tld extentions in each country. In this case is it ok that the domain keywords will still remain English? The hosting will be from the same ip in all cases. Just wondering if it is worth to spend money on the local TLDs - does it by itslef increase the ranking in those countries? Does it need translated keywords than? Does it increase crosslinking opportunities if all sites still hosted from the same ip? Is subdomain better than subfolder? thanks
both (b) and (c) option are good but (c) is better of the two. Yes domain keywords can still be in English.
I like b) Use the power of your main domain. Save the money you'd spend on domains and pick up some local hosting for the sub-domains. That way you'll have regional IPs for each sub-domain.
unfortunately regional ips is not an option due to all sites will run out of single database, not to mention multiple hosting costs. Any other opinions as well as elaborations on why one option is better than another?