Best Techniques for Applying Multilingual Properties to Your Web Site

For the past two weeks, CMS Buffet, the Toronto SEO company has been sharing best practices for taking your Web site multilingual. Our first article (Take Your Web Site Multilingual) covered how you will see a greater return on your online investment by making your site available to consumers in more than one language. Our second article (Best Multilingual Solutions for Your Web Site) offered the best available solutions for successfully translating your site. Now, we move on the most successful techniques we've found for seamlessly applying multilingual properties to your site without sacrificing your competitive search engine rankings.

1. Google Translate: We've been championing this option as the easiest and most efficient way to deploy one or more additional languages to your site.
   
2. Translate one page on your site, a summary of your products/services into an alternate language
   
3. Create a sub-domain that focuses on your second/third/alternate language
   
4. An entirely separate domain for your site in an alternate language
   
5. Session-based switching between two or more languages
   

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