Monthly Archives: May 2011
Google Guidelines For Creating Multi-Regional And Multilingual Sites – SEO for Multilingual & Multi-Regional Websites
Multi-regional and multilingual sites & SEO – Google Guidelines
A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin American soccer available in both Spanish and Portuguese.
A multi-regional website is one that explicitly targets users in different countries. Some sites are both multi-regional and multilingual (for example, a site might have different versions for the USA and for Canada, and both French and English versions of the Canadian content).
Expanding a website to cover multiple countries and/or languages can be challenging. Because you have multiple versions of your site, any issues will be multiplied, so make sure you test your original site as thoroughly as possible and make sure you have the appropriate infrastructure to handle these sites. Following are some guidelines and best practices to follow when creating multilingual and/or multi-regional sites.
Google Webmaster Guidelines for Creating Google friendly Websites
When we create any website and plan to have good business through one of the major search engine like Google by the ways of traffic coming through keyword ranking and other promotion ways like Google AdWords, we prefer SEO (Search Engine Optimization) activities to get better result, traffic and business through Google. But sometime it happens that though we have done all SEO activities, online marketing activities and Search Engine Marketing activities, we may not get accepted results. At that time we always think about what Google says and we look for it’s guidelines and try to follow them.
In my opinion it is better to think about Google’s guidelines from the beginning when we plan to create a website if we do so and follow Google’s Guidelines we can achieve our expected result in less time. Find below details about Google Webmaster Guidelines like Google-friendly site Design guidelines, Google-friendly site content guidelines, Google Quality guidelines, Google Technical guidelines for Creating Google-friendly Websites.
SEO Link Building Guide : Link Building 101 – The Almost Complete Link Guide
By Scott McLay at http://www.seomoz.org
Most of the advice I will be giving throughout this post is most likely available from a large number of sources including SEOmoz but I felt it would be great to bring everything together under one simple guide.
Creating your link building strategy
Before building any links to a website it is important to ask yourself a few questions like: