I've 2 estate agent sites one in English and the other in Spanish, the Spanish one just isn't being touched by Google and I'm soon to start working on getting more links. As most sites are in English and it's easier for me to deal with English sites (My Spanish is getting better!) should I have links in English to the Spanish site or Spanish to Spanish. The reason for asking this is that most people wouldn't know what is being said and may think it's best not to link, in which case will a link in English language be classed as bad link to a Spanish site?? e.g. Spanish version Casas en venta English version Spanish properties for sale Both link to the same SPANISH site. Thanks Ian PS I may as well through in a ........PM me if you want to swap links.
Ian, I would be careful about your internal linking, the main reason been you want to make the site as easy as possible to navigate, and not confuse people with Spanish links on the English site. Concentrate more on getting spanish anchor text links from Spanish written websites. What about getting the spanish language version hosted on a spanish IP address (hosting company) as I think that would help you getting listed better in www.google.es Hope this helps Darren p.s. I have a few travel sites, drop me a Pm if you want to reciprocate links.
It would not matter at all for SEO purposes. You could always have the English translation next to it as part of the desription.
I agree for SEO purposes it doesnt matter, but for producing a user friendly website I would be tempted to look at over avenues open to you.
Roar & darren What I meant was when I trade links with other sites for my Spanish site, is it best that the links are Spanish language only that I put on other sites? Darren I'll PM you later.
Ian, hmm I would say it would be better on Spanish language only websites yes. I've not looked at a comparison on my own website between Google.es and Google.co.uk but I'm assuming that Spanish language sites feature higher in .es
Hmmmmm I've got the Spanish site hosted on a Candian, plus I'd have major problems with laguage if anything went wrong on a Spanish host.
Thats a good point.. surely they are some english speaking hosting companies in Spain since they are so many ex pats there?
Cheers Darren Just book marked it, will read though and let you know what I've done, changed or just give up! Ian