5 different languages and domains

I have a website in 5 different languages. Each language has its own domain and all of them are ".com".
floraqueen.com
flores.floraqueen.com
fleurs.floraqueen.com
blumen.floraqueen.com
fiori.floraqueen.com


These domains are partially working in the main search engines. I´ve just bought domains for different languages with their own ending, for instance; ".es" for Spaing, ".it" for Italy etc. ej floraqueen.es.....

I do not want to loose the ranking that I already have but I have been told that I will achieve better ranking if I optimize the site for the new domains that I bought. Anybody knows what would it be the best thing to do. Whether keep working on the ".com" domains or start all over again in the new domains ".es", ".it", ".fr", etc. Thanks

Sorry, we have no information about ranking since that's nothing to do with the ODP. You'd be better off asking in a SEO forum.

As far as the ODP is concerned, the site can be listed in each language provided it is complete in each language, and that the translations are good (which means NO machine translations!). We prefer to list only one domain if possible; it will obviously help your site's visitors if all languages are linked to each other and if the links are easy to find.

5 languages

Thanks very useful. For us it is very important to address our users in their native language. So if I understood right I shall submit to your directory the 5 different domains (com, es, it, de, fr)

No.
- Put links to each of the language specific websites/pages on all of the others.
- Suggest the .com version to all five language categories.

5 languages

Thanks very clear now

5 languages

Following your advice, In the footer of the home page we have created links from our website(www) to the websites in different languages. I understood that we don´t have to submit the others websites.

My question is that now these new websites will fit very well in the category http://www.dmoz.org/Regional Do I need to submit these website to this category too? Or Do I have to wait that dmoz index our site and then submit them to the differents category? Thanks

Think about it: which SINGLE regional category would be most approporiate: Regional/Asia/Mongolia/Ulan_Bator/Business_and_Economy, or Regional/North_America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Business_and_Economy?

When you try to express the question in taxonomic terms, it sounds absurd. The fact is, if a business doesn't seem to have ANY specific geographic region as its focus (its material spans contintents), it wouldn't make sense to include it in ANY specific regional category.

As the first question was about several languages I suspect he meant to ask "does the site fit within World". If the sites are real translations you are allowed to suggest the mainurl in each language available on your site.

5 languages and domains

The idea is that the user will have the page searched in their own language. For instance if I submit the domain "flores" to the region Spain and someone write in Spanish, the spanish page will come up rather than the English.

To me it make senses to group countries with the same languages for instance
Regional/Spain/Colombia/etc... In order to bring the Spanish page(flores.floraqueen) or
Regiona/UK/USA/etc... In order to bring the English page (www.floraqueen)

I undernstand your point although I don´t see the abusurdity of the taxonomic terms. Can you be a bit more specific? Thanks

hutcheson said:

Think about it: which SINGLE regional category would be most approporiate: Regional/Asia/Mongolia/Ulan_Bator/Business_and_Economy, or Regional/North_America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/Business_and_Economy?

When you try to express the question in taxonomic terms, it sounds absurd. The fact is, if a business doesn't seem to have ANY specific geographic region as its focus (its material spans contintents), it wouldn't make sense to include it in ANY specific regional category.

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The idea is that the user will have the page searched in their own language. For instance if I submit the domain "flores" to the region Spain and someone write in Spanish, the spanish page will come up rather than the English.

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I think you're misunderstanding how we function. Your site, if it is listable, would be listable only once in each relevant language. It wouldn't be appropriate for you to suggest it to all of the various geographic categories that match your service area. You can code your site so that a specific language version displays based on where a person in surfing from but discussion of that is well beyond the scope of this forum.

And keep in mind that http://dmoz.org/Regional is for English-language sites only. Non-English sites get listed under the appropriate language category in http://dmoz.org/World .

Also, keep in mind that we prefer to list your main URL in all relevant languages, not the language-specific subdomains, i.e. we'd list floraqueen.com and floraqueen.com only in all of the relevant languages.

There is no Regional categorization that groups all the Spanish-speaking areas together. And it wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't be a Regional categorization in any sense of the word. Just look at the map: various Atlantic and Pacific and Caribbean Islands, Mexico, much of South and Central America, bits of Africa, large parts of Spain, California, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, New York ... And all sites in Regional are in English. How sane would it be to classify English - language site according as to whether or not a neighbor spoke some OTHER language? And ... in general, if we were so insane as to want to do that, how could we TELL which sites had neighbors that spoke what languages?

What you've described is in fact not a Regional category, just like "red creatures" is not a biological category. That is a Language (here we call it a "World" category). And we put sites in the Language that they correspond to.

5 different languages

Thanks, I hope I will get it eventually