: How to optimize a one language website's SEO for foreign languages? DETAILS I have a website that's content is in English. It is a niche website with a global market. However I would like

@Jamie184

Both ways you wrote above are good. The way with subdomains is cheaper and easier, but independent domain is better.
I have used subdomain for english on my website and my friend had used independent domain. It has too small time passed to say about final results, but you can read Google position about that: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en Also good post here: www.promodo.com/blog/multilingual-seo-how-to-be-liked-by-google

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@Tiffany637

Simply buying country ccTLDs and redirecting them to single website will have no SEO effect. Websites rank well in Google due to content on the site and people linking to the site (amongst other things), if you are redirecting the site, then there is no site and thus no content for Google to see and rank.

You have a couple of options here. Create ccTLDS for each language you want to target and spread your efforts over these separate websites, or stick with your single domain and create sub folders, or sub domains for each specific language.

I think because you want people to find your foreign language content, then easily proceed to your English language pages, the best option here is to have country specific sub folders within a main site. This also means you can concentrate all your SEO efforts on a single site.

Here are some resources you might want to read on Muilti-lingual site best practices.

Googles Guide to Multi-regional and multilingual sites

The Ultimate Guide to Multilingual and Multiregional SEO

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