I am running a small website on joomla CMS. It is currently hosted in the US and listed on google with my .COM domain name. My CMS site will automatically detect your computer's language options and display the content in that language if it is available.
I live in Europe and am currently translating the site into French and German. I want to get it listed on google.fr, google.de and google.ch (switzerland) and not sure what I need to do.
The questions I have are:
1. Do I need to acquire mysite.fr, mysite.de and mysite.ch domain names to be listed under google's option for pages only from that country?
2. Do I need to have hosting in the country for google to consider my pages from that country?
3. Can I set the domain names mysite.fr, mysite.de and mysite.ch to point to the US server or do they each need to point to a separate server which has to be hosted in that relevant country? I Can have multiple domains on my hosting account.
4. Depending on the setup from numbers 1 - 3, is there any problem with having the data for the CMS being delivered via the MySQL database which is hosted on the US server? For example, I can have a German server with just the core CMS files and the data will still be pulled from the database in the US. Would google consider this a German site?
Thanks
confusedxx posted this at 10:03 — 10th August 2006.
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Anybody have a suggestion?
Shirthead posted this at 11:46 — 10th August 2006.
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1. It would help
2. It would help
(in practice either one of the above should do it)
3. Possibly. I would be careful to ensure that the correct language version is automatically served to these addresses though so as not to look like duplicate content.
4. The search engines will not know where the actual data is coming from. As long as you host allows this then this should not be a problem.
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lumi posted this at 05:13 — 18th August 2006.
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1. yes it help. domain names for the specified country are better than .com or others. because a lot of users choose "show only sites in my language"
2. no and yes, i don't think that this make a difference.
3. yes you can. better is to host them on different servers because of the differnet ip addresses and to minimize the risk if one server is offline
4. he spider can not see from where the datas came. if you hostin service support access to your database from another domain than should this not be a problem
hope it help.
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Shirthead posted this at 09:20 — 19th August 2006.
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I can say 100% that this does. If you have the local TLD (e.g. .co.uk) then it doesn't make a difference. If however you are a non country-specific TLD t(.com, .net etc) hen where you host it is the only information the SEs have to determine what country your site is from.
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locatepeople posted this at 17:30 — 21st August 2006.
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the country specific domains would help, but I don't think you can really set them up without google having a problem about duplicate content so stick with the .com name.
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lumi posted this at 01:59 — 22nd August 2006.
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maybe it's right but who know it exactly? my friend have some sites for .it and .es and he is listed better in the g**gle.it than in g**gle.de
both of this domains are on a german server. i think it doesn't matter where your server is located. Also is a meta tag there which specify the language of the page.
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