Adding another language to a site

I have had several requests to add espanol to my site, so yesterday I started duplicating static pages and renaming the translated pages to things like "support.es.html" "contact.es.html" and so on. I am about to duplicate and translate the hole main body of the site over the next few days.

So people will be able choose the Espanol or English, a large part of the market is from Texas, Southern California, New York and Southern Florida.

I know this will aid to my sites traffic as far as user use-ability.

I was also going to convert the keywords, and description to Espanol as well for those pages.

Can doing this have a negative impact on my sites list-ablity with Dmoz, as I am not subtracting from the site I am adding duplicated content in a different language.

No, as long as the website in english (or whatever the main language was before) is still accessible without the knowledge of spanish, there won't be a problem.

You might want to read our guidelines about multilingual sites. Or, if you prefer to read spanish, Sitios multilingües

Thank you windharp

The only way you will ever see spanish is if the click the spanish link. This will flip your cookie to spanish and change all the links to the spanish pages.

if you did not see the spanish link you would never know the site even supported the spanish language.