Sites in the most languages

Seen a site made in more than 14 languages?

[Crush]

I am in the final stages of buiding my site in 14 langauges. I Would like to know if anyone has done more than me so I can catch up on them :P

[heini]

Hey, congrats, Crush? Mind telling us a bit how you set that up and how you plan to promote it? Not giving away too much of course ;)

[Rumbas]

Very clever move Crush. Good luck - it will pay off.

>more than 14

Maybe not 14, but pretty close ;)

Ditto what heini said - how have you set that up?
ccTLD's, local hosting?

[Remco]

How are you going to deal with the questions of visitors?

[Crush]

hosting on one domain. People look for us on one location and as we are the only ones who are willing to be kind enough to make a site in thier local language we are pretty much number one through getting craled by fast and google.

If people search on their local SE they will get no results and have to look further on the international search.

As for question from clients. I have a staff who speak about 5 languages but the more obscure languages we reply in English. People do not seem to mind. If I was selling a product in the country in the local language I would have a far bigger problem. But as I am advertising people to come to my location they would have to travel abroad and generally speak english.

It will pay off for sure. We put the Swedish online last week and got crawled by Google and had our first customer a few days later.

[Crush]

one problem though is that I cannot submit to local directories. Do you know if I contacted the webmaster they would include a .com?

Cheers

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Hmm. It shouldn't be a problem to register a .com i local directory. If you only have one domain I'm guessing that the user will get an english page and that they have to select right language but I don't see that as a big issue. However, If you are serious about promoting you site in different languages I reccomend that you get the local domains.

[Crush]

Hi

That sounds like a lot of trouble and expense to me. Imagine 14 domains and 14 hosting plans. Plus I would have to be careful about linking them. A lot of directories use fast or google anyway. Why do you think it would be better to get the local domains?

[Torben Lundsgaard]

You only need one host if you use different folders for the languages. The trick is having a script in the root, which redirects de different folders or files depending on the host header.

It's worth the trouble because some local SE's will filter out anything but local domains and some users will typy in the local domain instead of .com. Ask you self how many sales you need to make this profittable. I'm sure it's worth it.

[SlyOldDog]

There's another problem with local domains. There are often restrictions on who can own them. It is a logistical nighmare.

[Torben Lundsgaard]

SlyOldDog, you are right but it's forth the trouble.

I reccomend that you seek help from locals. In most cases you can register a domain through a local SEO, host, agency etc.

[Crush]

there is some guy here "Renke" I think. He is the daddy 19 languages all on local tld's. He is the man!

[vitaplease]

I'm with the lazy ones.

five languages on one .tld, 300 pages each.

In my case, would have been impossible to do without trainees from each respective country/language - to translate and to answer emails.

[heini]

>there is some guy here "Renke" ... he's the man

YES....
Rencke, who by the way started this European forum from scratch, has made some groundbreaking posts about exactly this approach to cross european web marketing. You might want to look them up via site search - absolutely rewarding. Example:
[webmasterworld.com...]