Someone has experiences on promoting a site in a different language?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by sligowaths, Feb 24, 2006.

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    Hi,

    Did you have any experiences promoting(SEO) a site in other languege than yours? For example, promoting a site in Spanish, but all your others sites are in English.


    To be more specific, I´m planning to pay someone to translate one of my sites from Portuguese to Spanish. I thought about this for a while and I came to the conclusion that I have nothing to lose, except by the price of translation and the domain registration. And maybe, if I could get some good SERP, I´ll get some money from adsense in a long way.

    Any thought? :confused:

    Thanks in advance,
    Tiago
     
    sligowaths, Feb 24, 2006 IP
  2. ROAR

    ROAR Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    I have put a part of my site into Spanish...I do great with SERPS in Spanish...get a decent amount of visitors, but dont really make very many sales due to the nature of my product.

    I would say do it...
     
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    pachecus Well-Known Member

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    I have a website in spanish and more than 2000 unique visitors per day, and I want to tell you that the adsense income is really low.
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    What about the duplicate content penalty aspect? We put a couple of our handbooks in Spanish but I blocked indexing via robots.txt to try to avoid duplicate content.

    Shannon
     
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  5. sligowaths

    sligowaths Peon

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    Thanks for the replies!

    pachecus, the avarege PPC here in Brazil is very low too, so It´ll not be different :)

    Shannon, I don´t think that duplicate content penality applies to content in different languages. I read on DP that even if you have the exact same content, but in a different html code, you won´t get penalized. One example of this is a lyrics site.

    Thanks again,
     
    sligowaths, Feb 24, 2006 IP