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Ian

Dear All,

We have several brands which operate a several languages and currently have a set up like this:

www.[BRAND].com/ = English global

www.[BRAND].com/de = German

www.[BRAND].com/fr = French

…

Each subdirectory is a completely different site so I was wondering would it be better to use TLD’s for each country site in order to hold more equity in the search engine if we used:

www.[BRAND].com/ = English global

www.[BRAND].de = German

www.[BRAND].fr = French

Are country top level domains the way to go? If we wanted to change language within a country site should we use the following?

www.[BRAND].be = Belgium English

www.[BRAND].be/nl-NL/ = Belgium Dutch

If you could let me know what to do I would be most grateful.

Thanks guy's

Ian Leggett

UI Developer