Website - .com - . co.uk - . net - . de - . it - . eu ETC!!

[lurkylou]

If you are attracting clients to a website from different countries is it better to have one website (.com) and then have the site in separate languages

OR

separate wesites (.co.uk, .de, .it etc) for each language?

Why??

I think it depends what kind of message you want to give. That of a multinational business (.com) or locally tailored to each different country. I have clients from different countries and have a .com. I have also registered the .co.uk and this defaults to the .com page.

Shows how little I know - you can get one address to default to the other??!!

Right, that makes sense then because if I'm in Germany I suppose .de addresses come up before .com addresses???

Domain names are so cheap I suppose it can't do any harm to buy them all (well nearly all!!)

Don't ask me how though! I got a website designer to sort out all the technical stuff. I think you need to register several addresses - like you say cheap anyway.

who was your website designer??

A local mum. I'm in Bucks. She charged £300 to produce the website (4 pages) and sorted everything out. I think it was reasonable - she spent a lot of time doing the designs etc.

what's the website address?

Most large companies have a thing where you select your country and then it defaults to a local domain (.de etc). However, for a smaller company, I think a .com name and then subdirectories (/en/ , /fr/ etc) would be fine.

Thanks for that littlelupin.

What do you mean by subdirectories??

Have been told it isn't necessary as the name will be in English and it's the keywords in site that are importmant. Not that the person who told me that appears to be an expert!!

OK, if you look at the top of this page, you will see www.mumsnet.com/Talk?...

"Talk" is the subdirectory that this thread and the underlying code lives in. It's the same as folders on your computer - just a way to divide stuff up into manageable areas (you can also assign different access levels to different directories, but that is another thread!)

www.voanews.com/english/screen_map.cfm VOA website in english

www.voanews.com/portuguese/ VOA website in portuguese

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