: Building multiple websites with different domain names or single website with multiple language folder Which one is better for increasing PageRank: Hosting multiple websites of different languages

@Samaraweera270

Host a single website with multiple language packs. If you host multiple different websites with a different language then your PR will be divided between the sites.

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@Lee4591628

Good question.

If it is a duplicated content, ie, same content, but in another language, I think you should build just one domain, and use a
domain.com/en/pageName.html www.domain.com/fr/pageName.html


structure.

However, if the content changes substantially according to locale, I think it is better use subdomains like:

en.domain.com/pageName.html
fr.domain.com/pageName.html


This because subdomains are proper for claiming a full subsection, with different type of content in they, and this structure improve the indexability for crawlers.

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