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SEO submission site to Google

[schirino]

Hi everyone,
I recently developed a multilingual website in Spanish / French / Italian. Each version of the website is hosted subdirectory e.g. example.co.uk/es/, example.co.uk/fr/, example.co.uk/it/
The original English version has very good ranking and I would like to start a SEO campaign for the mentioned above sites. Do I need to submit each single subdirectory to Google and other search engines?
Spain
[google.es...]
Mexico
[google.com.mx...]

Please advise.
Thanks in advance,

[Philosopher]

no...there is no need to submit. As long as you have links somewhere pointing to each of the language specific subdirectories, google will find and index those sections of your site.

[schirino]

Hi Philospher, thanks for your quick reply. Still, I'm a bit concerned.

I thought that if submit each version I would start ranking in each local Google. What do you think?

Any other tips? Thanks in advance?

[edited by: schirino at 4:14 pm (utc) on July 27, 2009]

[edited by: engine at 9:13 am (utc) on July 29, 2009]
[edit reason] See WebmasterWorld TOS [/edit]

[Philosopher]

You'll want to edit your post to remove your URLs. Webmaster World TOS prohibits posting of URLs.

That being said, just submitting your various subdirectories won't help unless you actually have links to those URLs.

The most common way to do this with multi-lingual sites is to link to the various language specific subdirectories from other places on your site. Some sites will link to the various subdirectories from the main homepage of the site, and others will place links to the different language versions on each page of the site.

The basic idea is allowing the flow of link juice to make it to the various language specific versions of your site. Once you link to those versions, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. will all find those directories and spider them without you ever needing to submit them.

You'll also likely want to submit those versions to language specific directories as well.

[schirino]

Thanks Philopher, thank you again for your quick reply. I amended the urls, sorry about that. So, just to see if I got it clear...I should include a link from my homepage (the English version that is ranking well) to the different language versions? plus links submission to different web directories, etc? What do you think?

[Philosopher]

Yep. I'd link to the language versions from at least the homepage, if not from each page of the site.

As to directories, don't just submit to any directories, but quality ones where you might already have your site listed. Most will have areas for language specific sites. Basically, you will want to do the same type of link promotion you did/do for your main site for the language specific versions.

[schirino]

Thank you Philosopher. Thank you very much.