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I explored this option some time ago and many villagers here in the link forum had some not so nice things to say.
I intend to tanslate my website in several languages. Yep Im in ecommerce so that does help and expand the possible market.
Now someone said if youre not using human translation don’t do it it makes your site look unprofessional (also note using Sotware Translators when you go English - French then French – English for the same statement it returns 2 different statements).
BUT WHAT IF you are not using this only as breaking into new markets but to establish solid back links.
Assume your website has 1000 pages – keyword rich content. You translate the site using translation software. (WE KNOW ITS NOT PERFECT BUT – international browsers will basically understand). So you would now have: www.yoursite.fr, .es, .de, .it, etc.
So you would have say 8 translated sites. We know this will take some time but I believe its worth it. Especially if you are selling downloadable products. (I think this might have a very good ROI)
Next ensure that your main site the one that is in the “Queens English” is linked to, not on every page but on at least 75% of the pages over EVERY translated site. You can create a direct chain of excellent links especially when the spiders crawl the new sites and locate the links to your main page. That would be a total of 5,000-6000 links.
Now heres where I need the webmasterworld villagers help, this project will run me until December 06. But I want to know if anyone here has tried this strategy and if it works. If anyone wants to subscribe to this technique please do and we can compare success and failure in this move.
Make certain…
A.The domain registration company is from the country
B.The www.yoursite.fr (or whatever) is hosted in France (or that country of origin) and not in the US. (Gives more credence to the strategy)
Ok guys what are your thoughts on this….
PS: Try and convince Brett to open a forum on website translation, the US culture is replicated globally by almost every other country, and the USD$ gets pounded daily by other majors, yet there isnt much in this EXCELLENT FORUM that addresses Global marketing in other languages. I think it is worth some investigation.
There are at least a dozen more weak spots in your plan. Serious weak spots.
The idea is really can the search engines tell that you are manipulating the process if the IBL are from different sites hosted globally. That would be SOME program they would have. The idea is just to ensure that you have back links to boost your PR.
Once youve gotten PR then people might naturally approach you for Recip Links.
I'll keep the villagers posted on the outcome of success or failure in this project.
about the manipulation thing. as long as it's on a different IP, it shouldn't be a problem. but heavy cross linking between those sites might be considered as link farms. cmiiw
btw, what is ur ecommerce site sells? if i think it has a market in my country, i might be able to help translating it. well not for free tho :D