Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
They operate in many countries and have each site set up as shown below. What would be the best way to set this up to enable them all to rank within their own countries?
UK: www.xx.example.com/uk/index.htm
Ireland: www.xx.example.com/ireland/index.htm
Holland: www.xx.example.com/nederland/index.htm
Belgium: www.xx.example.com/belgie/index.htm
France: www.xx.example.com/france/index.htm
Germany: www.xx.example.com/deutschland/index.htm
Poland: www.xx.example.com/polska/index.htm
Czech: www.xx.example.com/cesko/index.htm
Thanks for any help?
It's a challenge if you put them all on the same domain. But at least get the language headers straight and use the attribute <html lang="be">
Those extra-long hostnames (subdomains) look crazy to me. If I had to stay on one one domain and not use dedicated ccTLDs, I would go for:
example.com/be/
example.com/nl/
...etc. Use just the two-letter country code abbreviations as folde names and definitely keep the filename and extension out of the url for the "home page" for each country.
Index will be removed from the url.
Do you think we'll be able to rank in the given countries using that method?
