Should I include language specific characters in the URL?

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

So a client's site is to be set up like this:

domain.com
domain.co.uk
domain.de
domain.fr
domain.pl

The question is, on the non english language sites, which would be more likely to rank?

domain.de/über

or

domain.de/ueber

Thanks!

[Adam.Whittles]

I guess the easiest thing to do would be to test it yourself.

Fo example, when I search [über] in Google.de (with German location settings), after a Google result for the number one position, the next 2 results have ueber in the URLs and not über.

Hope that helps,

Adam.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Google is smart enough not to require language specific characters and I have worked with these in the past. You don't need them.

As suggested, test it yourself and you never see these characters in the results (just had a good search around). However, I would put them in Page Titles because at this point, you are down to text that people will be reading.

Andy

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

Good point Adam It looks like LSC appear quite frequently in the Page titles,  but not the URLs. Kinda helps

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

Andy - wish I'd read your comment before I slapped up the reply to Adam! Thanks... clearly "great minds" and all that!

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Ah that's no problem at all - just happy you have a useful answer

Andy

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

one useful answer by two people. Feels like a consensus!

[Adam.Whittles]

Glad to be of help.