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phranque - 10:45 pm on Sep 19, 2012 (gmt 0)


google recommends against specifying a language in the url with parameters for geotargeting reasons:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]
Google generally uses the following elements to determine the geotargeting of a website (or a part of a website):
1. ...
Webmaster Tools' manual geotargeting for gTLDs (this can be on a domain, subdomain or subdirectory level) ...



aside from GWT manual geotargeting, a (sub)domain can be locally hosted if necessary:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]
2. Server location (through the IP address of the server) is frequently near your users.
...


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