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I live in Europe and am translating the site into French and German. I want to get it listed on google.fr, google.de and google.ch (switzerland).
The questions I have are:
1. Do I need to acquire #*$!.fr, #*$!.de and #*$!.ch domain names to be listed under google's option for pages only from that country?
2. Do I need to have hosting in the country for google to consider my pages from that country?
3. Can I have the domain names #*$!.fr, #*$!.ch and #*$!.de pointed to the US server or do they each need to point to a separate server? I Can have multiple domains on my hosting account.
4. Depending on the setup from numbers 1 - 3, is there any problem with having the data for the CMS being delivered via the MySQL database which is hosted on the US server? For example, I can have a German server with just the core CMS files and the data will still be pulled from the database in the US. Would google consider this a German site?
thanks
I run a site that gets indexed and spidered by Googles from all over the world as is no problem. The site is only in English also.
It's actually easier to get good rankings on competitive words in non competitive markets, but the visitor is not worth as much as a North American or European one.
[edited by: caveman at 5:54 pm (utc) on July 10, 2006]
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1. Entire Web
2. Sites in German Language
3. Sites in Germany
I would imagine your site would appear in option 1, but not in option 2 or 3 if it is only in English. I am looking to understand what I need to do to get my site to appear at least in option 2 and maybe even in option 3 under Google Germany.
I haven't worked with .de domains, but, logically, if you want your site to appear in google.de local results then you either need to move your site to a .de domain (and host it anywhere you like) or move your .com domain name to hosting that Google identifies as being sourced from Germany.
