Google+ multiple languages

[jereprieto]

I'm facing the following situation:

We have a website (barcelonacheckin.com) with multiple languages. Each language has each own url. For instance English is barcelonacheckin.com/en and Spanish is barcelonacheckin.com/es.

If I'm right there seems to be a relation between the number of +1's and ranking in Google. Therefore we created a Google+ business page (https://plus.google.com/101996769636292908838) and we linked it to the english page of our web-site.

The number of +1's on our business page is in sync with our English landing page.

Now we want also to gather many +1's in the other languages. But it seems that you can only connect one Google+ business page to one web page. My question is. Whould it be smart to make a separate Google+ business page for each language?

I wonder how other multilingual web-sites are dealing with Google+.

[MiriamEllis]

Good discussion going on here. I did want to highlight this Google Forum discussion in case it would help with this topic: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/business/language/business/m9ye2hHR5Nw/nlzE_WQgKf4J

[GPainter]

Happy to help, good luck let us know how it goes

[jereprieto]

Thank you for your reply. We will go for it.

[GPainter]

Well the way Google looks at everything is "what's best for the user" and the same should really go for this, What would be best for the user experience, if you want to build a community then multilingual community then I would go for it as it would reinforce that you're there for your community and at the end of the day Google loves user experience.

Research and advice is always good though so don't be afraid to get more opinions & options!

[jereprieto]

We will be interacting with our community in various languages.

Actually my main question is: Would it be smart to create a separate Google+ page for each language? So barcelonacheckin.com/en has a link to the English Google+ page with rel=publisher and for instance barcelonacheckin.com/it has a link to the Italian Google+ page.

Our main goals is getting better ranks.

[GPainter]

Firstly would you be using all the pages? What I mean is Would you be interacting with your community through them or would you most just be using your English page? If your mostly going to use one it would look better because of the engagement you would get through that.

Not sure if it would help but you may find this page helpful (half way down near bottom of the article).

Other options is rel=author. Really you need to think what do you want to get out of it, is it for rankings, is it for engagement/community ?

Technically you could get barcelonacheckin.en and redirect to barcelonacheckin.com/en thus get the ability to have more than one G+

Hope something in that lot helps you.

Best of luck.