Thai Characters in URL's

[imoney]

Does anyone have experience with non-Latin characters in URL's?

We've launched a website in Thailand and picked Thai characters for URL's.

However, when you copy it, it turns into something like this:

http://www.imoneythailand.com/บัตรเครดิต

Can it impact our website's crawlability?

Also, is keyword in URL a ranking factor for non-Latin languages?

Thanks in advance for help!

[ReferralCandy]

As of now, using latin characters for URLs is still the popular choice for international sites, as non-latin characters in URLS is still not yet widely supported and recognised. Since we do know that keywords in URL is a ranking factor (albeit not a huge one), it would be wise to stick to latin-characters for now from a SEO perspective. Moreover, it would be much easier to type and recognise a URL with latin characters rather than the one given above.

The best strategy for now is to ensure your page titles contain the keywords (in thai) that you want, since the page titles is going to affect click-through rates much more than localised urls.

Here's an article that might be useful in your case: http://searchengineland.com/should-you-transliterate-your-brand-for-international-seo-130966

Hope that helps!