French Web site in DMOZ?

Bilingual web site

[erlandc]

I submitted a one page English web site to DMOZ for translation services. The site got listed on April 4, 2003, and afterwards, the owner of the site added a link of the same page in French. The site has not been spidered yet. She is asking me how come her site isn't anywhere yet.

Anyone know if this will affect her being spidered by google and the others?

Thanks!
ErlandC

[g1smd]

If you have access to the site logs, see if Google has spidered yet. You may yet be included in the next Google update, which is in about 2 weeks time.

You need to wait up to about two months to see if things are working out. Work on getting some other links to the site.

Validate the HTML to make sure there are no problems that stop the site being spidered.

[pendanticist]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld erlandc :)

Pendanticist.

[erlandc]

Thanks g1smd and pendanticist, that's what I tought, however, should she keep the French link there? Will it affect her being spidered well? Her site has been validated and optimized well with good keyword density.

Or should she remove it and use it in French engines and directories? She has a French domain for that page.

Thanks!
ErlandC

[ettore]

>> I submitted a one page English web site ... The site got listed ... the owner of the site added a link of the same page in French ... should she keep the French link there

Welcome to WebmasterWorld erlandc :) As g1smd said, be patient and Google will eventually get to the site and spider it. Keep the link there and watch the logs for googlebot on both sites.

In the meanwhile, if I understood correctly the owner of this English site about translation services added a link to the French version of the site, hosted on a separate domain, right? You may therefore want to submit the French version to the corresponding category under World/Français at the ODP. Multilinguual sites can have a listing in each corresponding World/[Language] subcategory.

[erlandc]

ettore, thanks,
you wrote>> (if I understood correctly the owner of this English site about translation services added a link to the French version of the site, hosted on a separate domain, right?) No, the link is within the same domain. Should she keep it there? We have 'noindex' 'nofollow' in the robots tag for that page thinking some bots might get confused.

She does have a separate french domain name and is wondering if should move the page to new server space, and keep the link pointing to it.

Any ideas? I am so curious about what to do with this situation.

Thanks again!

ErlandC

[ettore]

Sure having the French version of the site on its own domain is a good solution. Also, crosslinking them is the best way to drive crawlers from one to another. Why should they be "confused": bots like links, it's their favourite food.