Multilingual websites on DMOZ

darkolaus

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Hello,
A website that I am developing for a client has 4 (equal) sections in Serbian, English, German and Russian. The index.php file is currently set to redirect to the serbian version, as most of the visitors for the time beign come from Serbia. However the site is still very young and this might change in the future.

How do I submit this website to DMOZ? Four submitions of index pages for 4 languages? Just Serbian, or just English? Note that the website has about 20 pages per language and I don't want to be punished if I submit the 4 pages.

Thank you in advance...
 

darkolaus

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The structure of the website is like this
- index.php - no text, just a script redirecting to one of the pages (currently sr_index.htm, but this might change)

- sr_index.htm - the index page in serbian
- en_index.htm - the index page in english
- de_index.htm - the index page in german
- ru_index..htm - the index page in russian

All of the pages have the three foreign languages links in the top-right corner. So should I add the root url to World/Srpski/etc... and Regional: Europe: Montenegro: etc... or just to World/Srpski? (I don't really need German and Russian so much on DMOZ) Is the two entries ok for such a small website?
 

chaos127

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Presumably your site can be accessed by a URL of the form http://www.example.org/ (or possibly http://www.example.com/hostaccountname/ ) and if you get redirected to a language you don't understand, there's still an obvious way to change to one that you do. In which case the URL form above is how you should suggest the site (and you suggest the same base URL in each language). A site can be listed once in each language in which it has sufficient unique content.
 

motsa

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You should submit the root of the site (example.com) to each language, not the language-specific subpages.
 
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