Site in 2 languages

What is the best way to do it!

[aspdaddy]

Hi,
I am doing a site to promote apartments, the client wants to target in two languages - French & English . I see three options, anyone tell me whats the best one for the search engines ?

1 - Get a second domain & fully translate the site
2 - put a translated version in a /francais folder on the same domain
3 - Use some online tool like babelfish to do translations when needed.

aspdaddy

[Macguru]

Hi aspdaddy,

Option # 1 works the best for me. It depends on how well the site integrates to overall marketing plan. Promoting 2 different domains on conventional media can be a problem sometimes.

[vitaplease]

aspdaddy, you might want to do some weekend reading on that subject..

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[aspdaddy]

Thanks Guys.

[web_india]

If you just want to be indexed, go for 2. If your site is competing for good rankings in search engines, go for 1.
Don't go for 3