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That helps a lot. Thank you!

Seems like the safe solution would be to go with separate sites and localize hosting for each as you mentioned.

I just discovered Multilingual Press WP plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/multilingual-press/). Looks like it can provide ccTld and ability to manage all through a single WP Site with Pro version. I would lose the potential SEO benefit from local hosting, but efficient management might beat that. Need to dig into this a bit more.

Also, WordPress Multilingual plugin (http://wpml.org) was recommended to me for "folders" or "sub-domain" solutions. I need to dig into this more, but I do feel better about using ccTld for each.

Thanks for all the help and resources!

Wow that is an interesting work around! Thanks for sharing!

We have expanded into France and Brazil and now have a someone in-house that can translate to French and Brazilian Portuguese. I own ".fr" and ".com.br" versions of our domain.  We are using Wordpress for our CMS. We are currently publishing about 2 articles a week on English site which we would be translating and publishing through new international sites (when appropriate). We will be changing out photos and videos at times in addition to all the text/copy.

So, before I jump deep into this I wanted to reach out for help regarding the best modern approach to this. Should I use some sort of WP Plugin that will let me manage each of these through 1 WP install or is it better to run each separately through multiple WP installs?

I want to achieve this while...

• avoiding any duplicate content penalties.
• provide easy admin/editor management of publishing content.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The breadcrumbs take up a lot of space when site responsively sizes down for smaller devices. I do not want to hide them, so what hoping i could just simplify them down a bit.

I get the same feeling when I look at the 3 options. My only hesitation is the old rule about keeping keywords early in the URL. Not sure if that really matter anymore.

There are no keywords in the domain. If there were I would definitely just go with dealers/tennessee/nashville and keep it simple and direct as you suggest.

Replying to your last statement if I were going to go with http://website.com/widget-dealers/tennesee/nashville, are you saying I should have the "widget dealers" page url be different and be just "dealers"? Wouldn't that confuse the bots on structure?

Working on the UI of a new site and I would like to simplify the breadcrumbs so they do not take up as much space. They will still communicate the same message to user. See example below:

• Before:  Home > Widget Dealers > Tennessee > Nashville
• After:  Home > Dealers > Tennessee > Nashville

The page title and/or menu item would still be "Widget Dealers". So my question is, if I remove the keyword "Widget" only from the breadcrumb could that hurt me in any way?

I'm working on a website with 100s of locations. There is a location search page (Find Widget Dealer), a page for each state (Tennessee Widget Dealers) and finally a page for each individual location which has localized unique content and contact info (Nashville Widget Dealer). My question is is related to how I should structure my URL and the keywords within the URL. Keywords in my examples being the location and the product (i.e. widget).

Here is a quick overview of each of the 3 tiered pages, with the Nashville page being the most optimized:

1. Find Widget Dealer - Dealer Page only includes a location search bar and bullet list links to states
2. Tennessee Widget Dealers - Page includes brief unique content for the the state and basic listing info for each location along with links to the local page)
3. Nashville Widget Dealer - Page includes a good amount of unique content for this specific location (Most optimized page)

That said, here are the 3 URL structure options I am considering:

1. http://website.com/widget-dealers/tennesee/nashville
2. http://website.com/dealers/tennesee-widget-dealers/nashville
3. http://website.com/dealers/tennesee/nashville-widget-dealer

Any help is appreciated! Thank you

Working on the UI of a new site and I would like to simplify the breadcrumbs so they do not take up as much space. They will still communicate the same message to user. See example below:

• Before:  Home > Widget Dealers > Tennessee > Nashville
• After:  Home > Dealers > Tennessee > Nashville

The page title and/or menu item would still be "Widget Dealers". So my question is, if I remove the keyword "Widget" only from the breadcrumb could that hurt me in any way?

That helps a lot. Thank you!