Subdomains for Language options

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Subdomains for Language options

martinacastro

1:54 pm on Oct 6, 2011 (gmt 0)

Question for the experts:

If you have a main site with unique content and some links to affiliate programs, could be a problem if I have subdomains in spanish, portuguese and german, that they are a brief/summary with few pages of the home domain site? Could this be seen as thin affiliate and affect the whole domain?

httpwebwitch

8:15 pm on Oct 6, 2011 (gmt 0)

I'm using subdomains for international content, and have had no ill effects whatsoever.

Consult the W3C and mark up your code with proper language identifiers.
SE's are generally forgiving when it comes to offering similar content in multiple languages.

For instance on French pages:

add lang to the <html> element

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">

set the Content-Language header

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fr" />

provide links to the same content in other languages

<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/" hreflang="en" lang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://es.example.com/" hreflang="es" lang="es" />