Translating a site the SEO way???

[jonnyd8]

Hi Guys.

I have a site that's designed for both a UK audience and and si (slovene) audience.

I have completed the UK site and am in the process of doing translation into Slovene which is fine.

My quesiton is how much of structural content needs to be in slovene?

The copy that users see will obviously be slovene as will the menus and headers etc.

But do I need to change the names of my include files??

Current UK include may be generic-menu.html or english-header.html

Do the slovene page sneed to have generic-menu.html (but in slovene) or can I just link to the original includes even for the Slovene pages?

Make sense?

Any help would be great.

[Brian Turner]

You don't need to change code for multilingual so far as I'm aware - it used to be an old spamming technique to have keyword files, but if the users don't see them, then presume the search engines won't either.

[targetedtraffic]

No code change is needed, i have worked on several sites that are global and need multiple languages, as long as the text is correct on page then the site will have no problems

[flanok]

I have just done something simailar with a Polish site.

I did not change any incudes files, but I did feel I needed to change the internal page urls as they needed to be SEO friendly and user friendly.


In my case it was not just a case of translating the content and keeping all the same pages. I needed to rename every internal page.