Geting indexed in Spanish

How?

[Fryman]

I am planning to build a Spanish website. A .com.mx domain costs $125, and a .com.es domain costs 140 Euros. The hosting costs in Mexico are $40 a month for 20Gb transfer. This is ridiculous!

If I buy a normal .com, and host it in the USA, will there be any posibility that my website would appear when someone typed the Spanish keywords? If someone in Mexico typed those keywords, would my website be listed?

Thanks for your help

[isitreal]

Yes, absolutely, there's no problem at all with that, I do a bilingual website, .com, hosted in US, search engines have no trouble recognizing the spanish pages, top ranked on google.mx, .es, etc for target keywords, better in fact by far than the english pages, the site is split in two, english section and spanish section, same IP, same main site. I didn't do anything to meta tags, no language statement, and it worked fine.

[PatrickDeese]

First of all - if you go directly to www.Nic.mx (the official registrar of the .MX tld) - you can get your .com.mx domain for $35 per year.

Secondly I host all of my .com.mx domains in the US and they are fine in google.com.mx et al.

Thirdly if your site has Spanish content - Google will flag it as spanish and it will show up for Spanish searches.

[Fryman]

Thanks! Good news to me, I will start then right away.

I have seen that Spanish websites don't have any SEO stuff at all! Any person that tweaks a Spanish website a bit could easily get a top position. I hope I do...

[Fryman]

Gee... hit the submit button before I finished typing and I can't seem to be able to edit my post to add more content...

One more question: does it hurt if you get backlinks to your Spanish site from sites in the USA that are written in English? Of course, using a Spanish keyword, or should I focus on getting backlinks only from 100% Spanish websites?

[Fryman]

Anyone?