Which One Would You Suggest Me in Terms of Internalization?

[Prabhu.Sundar]

Hi Friends,

This is my website http://goo.gl/fYndv. As of now, we have only one domain and we have contents in both English & Arabic. Arabic is translated content from English. So, we use alternate tags to indicate Google about that. We mostly receive traffic from Saudi Arabia because we are based out there. Now, we are planning to target major countries like India, Australia & So on. We know like creating sub-folders over sub-domains would be good like example.com/in/ over in.exmaple.com.

But we are not going to change any contents only currency gets changed in those geo-graphic sub-domains or sub-folders. I just want to know, since I am not going to change the contents will it be good if I go with sub-folder like example.com/in. Is there any chance for Google penalization?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

In theory, no. an ecommence store can have  en-us and en-uk as hreflangs, which would have the same content but different currency - totally acceptable.

Sounds like you are in the same scenario.

[Prabhu.Sundar]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for your valuable reply. My website is affected by Panda 4.2. So, should I go with Sub-folder or Sub-domain in this case.

[MoosaHemani]

Prabhu, based on the information you have provided I would say going with subdomains are going to hurt you. Because you are displaying the same content on two different URLs and the only change is a currency.

No matter if you are attacked by Panda, I will still go with the idea suggested by Oleg.

Hope this helps!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

I'm a believer in subfolder > subdomain