[Alvin]

I know its obvious but if you wishto sell to europe or beyond.

It is very worthwhile translating your page into the target countries language.

Including your titles and tags.

Alvin

[SEO Guy]

My suggestion is to have separate domains for each language the reason is you will then be able to exchange links between each homepage which in turn will drive up the link popularity as long as you make sure you dont have them all on the same server

Another method is to have sub folders for each language, with each homepage indexed to your main site's home page this way you will only be able to promote the main site and each language site will get its rank from your main home page

Or setup dynamic pages that all work from a modified URL

The trouble is if you dont use individual pages you can find problems because Google gives precedence to websites in the searcher's own country, added to that country specific directories and search engines only accept listings from websites in their country. It would seem logical to have separate country-specific domains, hosted in their specific country.

Just a few ideas

[Alvin]

I appreciate your points,but we come up No1 for all our foriegn language pages which are based on a UK sever and our main site.?

Hence we have quite a few sales going to the various countries.

Alvin

[OldWelshGuy]

My suggestions is don't bother. If someone is searching in a language you don't speak, they are VERY likely (from experience) to enquire in a language you can't read

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by OldWelshGuy

My suggestions is don't bother. If someone is searching in a language you don't speak, they are VERY likely (from experience) to enquire in a language you can't read

Now listen OWG wee's all in the EU now.

and we gotta be multi lingual ,multi tasking educated like what I is.

Well actual the wife is + a bit of google translate and we get by OK.

Mind you there was that time we sent a dolls house to a spanish customer.

when he wanted a jetski fuel pump.

Alvin