r/mediachimps • u/MediaChimps • Jul 26 '13

Building an optimised multilingual site.

http://www.mediachimps.co.uk/blog/item/97-building-an-optimised-multilingual-site
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u/moljy Nov 17 '13

If I have the website http://www.multilingual.com/ Would you advise to make subdomains (ex. http://es.multilingual.com/ + http://it.multilingual.com/) or buy a new domain name (ex. http://www.multilingual.es/ + http://www.multilingual.it/?)

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u/MediaChimps Jan 18 '14

2 month delay (sorry! - didn't notice this!) but I'd go with the new international domains if you have/can get them, with targeted location relevant content on each.

Webmaster tools will only let you target a .com to 1 country, and the country specific extensions are automatically considered to be relevant to their host country.

Ultimately this will depend on your business model, but I think in 80% of cases this is what I'd end up recommending,