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Hi Miriam,

Many thanks for your time and response. You are right. We gave it a second thought and we think it is not a good strategy for the nature of business we are doing.

You have a great day.

Hi Matthew,

Many thanks for your answer. Although we work internationally but we have a couple regions that we do most of our business with them. So we had this idea to make Google locals for each one of these specific regions. But after giving a second thought and the comments we received from you guys , we think it might not be a good idea.

Thanks

I have a service website which has clients from all over the world. They use this website to connect with each other. They need to pay to use this service. As a new strategy we want to make our services free in a certain country. Changing the coding and development of this strategy would be too expensive. In order to spend less we are thinking to create a sub-domain like Canada.ourwebsite.com . Then make a duplicate of our website and locate on that sub-domain. That sub-domain would be just for Canadian and they can use all services of the website totally free. The rest of world will use the main website. On the other hand we have two different websites that one of them is linked to the main one. We are assuming the free website would become very popular and grow so fast and this is the purpose of our strategy to make that sub-domain so popular and then transfer the juice of this popularity to the main website. It is the right thing to do? Does this help marketing and increase the visibility of the main domain? Does a popular sub-domain help the main domain?

Thanks guys

Thanks Martijn

Hi Martijn,

Many thanks for your comment. But if tag pages are not good to be seen by users or crawled by Google, then what is the use of them?

Regards,

Actually I am not targeting Iran. My main market is the US and Canada but here are people who like to use a Farsi portal. So what I am planning to do is to have my English website(Primary one) like abc.com/lang:eng and then add a sub-directory for Farsi like abc.com/lang:far for the times users choose to switch the language to Farsi. Then I can use specific Farsi meta titles and description for my Farsi version of the website which obviously would be totally different than my English version. It is in a way the same way as the reference website you mentioned is doing.

Hi Gianluca,

My website is bilingual(English and Persian). My keywords in Farsi are totally different looking alphabetic wise. For example in English it is "Book" and in Farsi it is "کتاب". So I think like what Fredrico said I need to start a whole new campaign and setting for my Persian pages totally separate from English version of the website.

Kindly let me know what you think.

Regards

Hi everybody,

My competition has started to use the sub-domains vastly. He has created one sub domain for every single city and keyword. Is it something that I should be worried of? Is it a good idea I start doing the same thing?

Thanks for your help.

Some of my important keywords are not in English. Is blogging in another language rather than English helps ranking those keywords? Does Google crawl other languages just like English?

Hi Fredrico,

Thank you so very much. It answered my question completely

There are domains available which match exactly to my main keywords which I am trying to rank for. For example my keyword is "Green apple" and there are domains like greenapple.com . Do you think from Google stand point of view it is ok if I buy domains like this and when visitors go to these domains, automatically direct them to my main website?

Thanks