Getting ranked in French on Google UK ?
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Hellooooo the Moz community ! (#superexcited, # firstpost)
Here's my problem.
I'm working for a client specialised in Corporate Relocation to London for French families.
(I'm reworking the entire site from the ground up, so I can manoeuvre pretty easily)
The thing is, these families will either be :
- Searching on Google FR but mostly in English (French as well)
- Searching on Google UK but mostly in French ! (and of course, English as well)
To be honest, I'm really not sure what strategy I should go with.
Should I just target each local market in its native language and google will pick up the right language if people are searching in the "opposite" language ?
I'd love some tips to help get me started.
Sadly, I don't have a lot of data yet. (Client didn't even have tracking up on their site before I came in). So far here's what I got (on very small number of visitors):
Location: 50+% from UK / 20+% from France.
Language : 60+% En / 35+% FrThank you.
Tristan
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Thank you. Very useful.
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Hi Tristan,
Here is the link where you will get all answers of related to your query. In that Gianluca has explained about multilingal website seo.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-dropping-the-information-dust
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