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Yes, the current domain name has brand name in it and people already recongnize the brand  hence they don't want to change the domain name. I am wondering if redirect from current domain to a new domain help SEO or detoriate user experienc and /link profiles going forward.

Will check out following video.

Thanks Joel for the link! I had missed the whiteboard friday and found in my RSS feed later after I posted the question here. sorry about that.

Thanks Nemek! Is the second strategy a better idea then?

It's best practice to choose a domain that has keyword in it.

But if someone has just launched a website and the domain name does not have keyword, is it better to purchase a new domain name that has a keyword in the name and redirect existing domain to the new domain? Will that help SEO?

(This just launched website does not have any traffic or links yet.)

We have a .com website in English targeting global visitors.

We have good rankings on Google USA for our targeted keywords

But we do not rank well in APAC e.g. Sigapore and Australia.

What could we do to get ranked in these countries?

We received a recommendation to sign up for .sg and .au domains and replicate our

Website for Singapore and Australia. But wouldn’t it contribute to duplicate content

Issue? We are in software industry and do not have locale specific content.

Please advise.

Thank you so much Neil! That helps!!

Hi Sameer,

Thanks for the reply! I am not worried about the content.

We needed some direction on URL rules. Translating entire folder structure in german is not feasible in phase 1 of this project hence we thought of translating just the last folder and filename in german. Actually the example link that I used in the original question does not display properly. Let me try again

example.de/folder1-in-english/folder2-in-english/folder3-in-german/filename-in-german.html

Hi Everyone,

This question is about URL best practice for multilingual websites.

We have www.example.com in English and we are building the exact replica of English site in German www.example.de.

On the Geman site, we are considering to translate some portions of the URLs for example last folder and file name as seen below:

example.de/folder1-in-english/folder2-in-english/folder3-in-german/filename-in-german.html

Is this a good idea? Will this help SEO and user experience both? or the mixed languagues in URL will confuse the users?

Google guidelines say that this should be ok.

Would love to get feedback from SEOMOZ community!

Thanks,

Supriya.

Hi franciscocmeza

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had read Google guidelines and scoured Google webmaster central before posting the question here. rel=canonical solution was mentioned in Google guidelines.

I am not able to see the video. YouTube says it's not available. Can you please resend the video link?

Hi Dejan,

This is very helpful!! Thank you so much for discussing real life case study.

We are planning to launch .de site (with 500 pages in German and rest in English) in July 2011.

Then over a course of 12 -18 months after that, we will have everything translated in German.

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post in this new Q & A section!! This interface looks great!!

Now onto the question....

We have www.example.com in English that has 50,000+ URLs. We are in the process of building a new site example.de targeting German users.

The German site (www.example.de) will be a mirror of the English site at launch as we want to give a full experience to people visiting the .de domain. However, not all pages will be localized as we can't support that. We are planning on localizing the core sets of pages (~500) and leaving the rest in English. Post launch, we will have additional milestones to localize the remaining pages until the entire site is localized (converted to German).

Is this the correct way to go? Will this cause duplicate content issue?
Will adding "rel=canonical" tag on these pages solve the purpose?

Thanks for the help!