Best practices when targeting a different country and language completely.

[cookie777]

Hi,

I have just recently built a shopping site which is targeting users from the UK, built in opencart. Now I want to expand the site and also target customers in Thailand, for Thailand users they will need the site in Thai & English language. I was wondering what would be the best option to do this, taking into account best possible practice V's time involved. As I can see it have only a couple of options really.

1. Add a new language to the existing .com site. This seems to be the easiest and fastest option.

2. Clone the site and launch on a .co.th domain with Thai/Eng text option. Would their be any major benefit ranking wise as to having a co.th separate site. Or any duplicate content potential issues.

Bit of a noob so don't be afraid to point out the obvious. I did have search and could only find topics relating to eu languages and GB v US. Is their anything extra that has to be taken into account considering the massive differences between UK and Thai.

Thanks you for any guidance,

Ian

[dotfly]

The easiest way would be to add a new language to the existing site - YES, that`s right.

Just think about the option to register a .co.th domain and redirect it to the site where your content is in Thai language (maybe a subfolder).

If you implement the english text on a .co.th domain as well this will be interpreted as duplicate content.

[cookie777]

Thank you mrcensorious,

That makes sense and should be pretty easy to do.

Thanks for your time.