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Thanks for you answer, it gives me faith that I am doing right.  

Yes these are exactly what we are doing since 2012, and the WOT score just increase too slow.

Most of people who feels bad with your website or company will leave a low rating on WOT, while few people feels good with our website will go to mark a high score.

Before 2012, our employees used to spam in the forums as we are not that skilled in SEO at that time. And it caused a low WOT score and some people report us as spam.

But since 2012, I forced them to stop all kinds of spam activities, but it always take 10x works to make up for the mistake made before.

Now we are totally focus on the white-hat SEO, and how can we improve the WOT score? Thanks.

I've already requested a review, and they said that they need more time to re-rate my site.

Recently our company is going to expand our site from just english to multi-language, including english, french, german, japanese, and chinese.

I deeply understand a solid and feasible plan is pretty important, so I want to ask you mozzers for help before we taking action!

Our site is a business site which sells eBook software, for the product pages, the ranks are taken by famous software download sites like cnet, softonic, etc. So the main source of our organic traffic is the guide post, long-tail keywords.

We are going to manually translate the product pages and guide post pages which targeting on important keywords into other languages. Not the entire english site.

So my primary question is: should I use the sub-domain or sub-category to build the non-english pages? "www.example.com/fr/" or "fr.example.com"?

The second question: As we are going to manually translate the entire pages into other languages, should I use the "rel=alternate hreflang=x" tags? Because Google's official guideline says if we only translate the navigations or just part of the content, we should use this tag.

And what's your tips for building a multi-language site? Please let me know them as much as possible

Thanks!

Hi Sheldon,

question again: I read the Google's official guide of the rel=alternate hreflang=x tag, Google says that if your page's navigation, sidebars are translated, or you want to target on specific region which use similar language, you can use this tag.

But for me, I just have 4-5 fully translated pages, not just translate navigation or sidebar, should I use this tag?

Nice complement Paul, I checked the NRelate it's nice, I'll keep tracking this plugin until they offer an universal JS version.

I was preparing to use Diqus plugin to show related posts, but our site has already used another comment solution which is developed ourselves, and I don't think it's a good idea to replace all the comments of the entire site.

So is there another free service to show visitors related posts? We are not a WP site, so I can only accepts HTML&JS codes, not WP plugins, etc.

And I also don't want it contain external links even if I can benefit from them, because we are in a pretty specific niche, the recommendations to posts on other sites may take our orders away.

Thanks

So it's sort of "subscription"??

Thank you Sheldon, you are such an informative and helpful guy.

I am working on a website which sells eBooks softwares, most of posts on the site are teaching people how to solve eBook-reading problems and will lead visitors to download and try the software.

But some posts are not related to the software, we just write it for traffic, for example: link-bait post such as top xxx romantic eBooks, free eBooks tools review, etc. These posts have got a pretty considerable traffic, but visitors just come here, read, like/share/comment, then leave.

Is there any way I can make use of these pages to convert?

Thanks