Subdomains or Subfolders for a multilingual site?
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What kind of structure would you propose for a site with multiple languages, subdomains or subfolders?
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Either one works, as long as you tell G which one you choose via rel="alternative"
Either is fine - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multilingual-websites.html
Mark up multilingual - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html
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