Bobby - 1:27 pm on Jun 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Possibility of authoratative links in several languages make your domain more of an authority overall

Good point Steve, and it appears that Google prefers "authoritive" sites at this point in time.

No sandbox

Although this is certainly an advantage for a few months it doesn't matter to me as I am not concerned about increasing visits immediately (I already have my hands full) but rather long term.

Increase in regular and deeper crawling

Another good point I had not considered which allows for better feedback when applying changes. The site has only about 100 pages, so deep crawling would not be a problem nor would it tax the server much more as the site is light.

No risks in terms of "seeming genuinely 3rd party"

True, but again I am not concerned about it. I am confident that the original content will be appreciated by the great Google in the sky.

"this domain cares enough about its content to make it available in several languages"

I like the concept here, it might apply in other ways too.

Thanks for your input.

Any ideas on benefits to having another domain?