Comments on: Developing multi-language websites

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:11:52 +0000

Questions:
My software don’t read the alphabet character of chinesse, japanese, korean, etc.i had a hard to optimized the page with that character..Can you help with my problem

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:32:50 +0000

Yep, this one:

http://www.phoenixrealm.com/ecommerce-baby-monitor/

By: WTL

WTL — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:46:36 +0000

Indeed, happy 2008, folks.

By: SEO Carly

SEO Carly — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:23:18 +0000

Which one, my one?

If so shucks, also HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m in protest and i’m taking today off to do whatever, i even worked all night Xmas night so today is the day to browse around and not even look at a Robots.txt file, or Meta Tags.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:31:55 +0000

Hi Carly, pleased to hear you have been busy. Like you I have also been having a manic time, although I am almost on top of things now and hopefully will be back to normal and posting regularly next week. By the way if I had an award for the best post or comment of the year, it would be this one - http://www.phoenixrealm.com/ecommerce-baby-monitor/#comments 2007-11-30 07:06:56 - Cheers.

By: SEO Carly

SEO Carly — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:50:06 +0000

I’m still alive Gary

The lead up to Xmas has been mind boggling.

Anyhow, the biggest downside to implementing this change is increasing the volume of pages lowers the link equity being passed to the English version and this can have the effect of reducing their rankings.

The bigger the English version of the site, and the more languages you make the site available in the worse the issue will become.

As you know the biggest determination of a webpage being in the supplemental index is Pagerank. So for example a PR4 link pointing at a 10 page website will elevate those pages alot more than the same link pointing at a 1,000 page site.

Can you give a bit more info about the project? Is it a new site or existing site? How big and how many languages etc?

Also the aim of the site, because you need to work out what benefits there will be by having non-English visitors.

By: WTL

WTL — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:57:56 +0000

And, I bet, comments in those languages too. Sounds like fun.

I would imagine you could do something with WordPress to handle this, but that hasn’t been the route I’ve gone (custom code).

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:59:02 +0000

Hi, yep that is pretty much the idea, every page could be in up to 10 languages.

By: WTL

WTL — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:04:05 +0000

I have worked on a few bilingual sites (in Canada, there are two official languages; English and French), and usually, the sites are static pages.

I have, however done a few dynamic sites that are database driven. Is the goal to have a site where every page has a version in the other languages?