Language by domain solution

[Tine Chem]

Greetings,

 

Altrough I ve been using prestashop for some time now I haven't find good solution for this issue:

 

What I want is to have unique domain for each language in my shop

 

For example:

 

English www.mysite.eu

German www.mysite.de

Spanish www.mysite.es

 

All shops would have same products.

 

I also want the url to change when I use change language option in frontoffice. I tried to solve it with multistore inn 1.5 but couldnt find any solution.

 

I have stores in 1.4 and 1.5, so solutions for this versions are welcome.

 

Did anyone solved this somehow?

 

 

thanks for response.

[El Patron]

I have seen a couple posts of shop owners trying to accomplish this.

 

But I can only see dis-advantage to this plan.

 

 If vistior adds to cart, then switches lang (which in your scenario witches domain) the cart will be lost.  This is also true for login, they will then be whatever status of log of the new domain.

 

 

Can you explain the advantage to your idea of switching domains based on language?

[Tine Chem]

Hi el patron,

 

the advantage is:

- that you have one back office from where you control your stock and customers (shipping etc...)

- Better options with SEO of your website. You have two or more domains that have specific language related to a domain specified for specific region. People tend to trust local domains more than some international or domain from other countries...

 

that are the main ones

 

tinechem

[El Patron]

Hi el patron,

 

the advantage is:

- that you have one back office from where you control your stock and customers (shipping etc...)

- Better options with SEO of your website. You have two or more domains that have specific language related to a domain specified for specific region. People tend to trust local domains more than some international or domain from other countries...

 

that are the main ones

 

tinechem

 

I do not agree with this...nor does google...

 

with multishop (one back office) you can have the same exact content on two or more shops, they can both have say five languages...as long as you only use one gTLD and multiple ccTLD's you are not penalized for duplicate content.  So you end up with significant seo advantage in that each domain and it's related languages are indexed by search engines.

 

note: when you create each shop ccTLD, you set that's shops default languge/currency etc. to match...

 

switching a customer to another domain, thus losing cookie and all associated to cookie...is bad practice

 

this all in my honest opinion

[Tine Chem]

Thanks el patron for explanation,

 

I have two questions

 

1. What si better for SEO if I have one global domain with multiple languages or if I have each language on its own domain? Does google index pages in second language on website. For example default language is native and the second is english. I am afraid that only native pages will be indexed and english will be skiped more or less. What are your experiences on this issue?

 

2. Is there any solution to sort customers in groups by language. For example if customers come from local language on website they are in default group, if it comes from English site on group2 international if from another language in group 3 etc...

I would need them sorted in different groups because mailchimp email campaigns. There is no sense of sending emails in native language to international customers...

[El Patron]

Thanks el patron for explanation,

 

I have two questions

 

1. What si better for SEO if I have one global domain with multiple languages or if I have each language on its own domain? Does google index pages in second language on website. For example default language is native and the second is english. I am afraid that only native pages will be indexed and english will be skiped more or less. What are your experiences on this issue?

 

2. Is there any solution to sort customers in groups by language. For example if customers come from local language on website they are in default group, if it comes from English site on group2 international if from another language in group 3 etc...

I would need them sorted in different groups because mailchimp email campaigns. There is no sense of sending emails in native language to international customers...

 

 

1. When you have a singled or multiple gTLD's but offer services in other countries, you compete for exposure at the global level.  When you use ccTLD, search engines automatically know that it's for that country, so a domain.es for those using google.es are going to see your .es long before they will ever see you gTLD (.com).

 

2. not sure of the answer to that.  I would have to research it and I not in a time position to help there...I would post a new post just on this subject.

[Tine Chem]

El patron,

 

I ve checked multistore and It could be ok for my solution. There is only one thing I would like to clear here.

 

So, if I have the same content on mydomain.es/en/ - English language on native domain and on mydomain.com/en - English language on international site there will be no penalty from google due to duplicate content? Is this true? If so it solves my problem...

 

Thanks a lot.

[El Patron]

El patron,

 

I ve checked multistore and It could be ok for my solution. There is only one thing I would like to clear here.

 

So, if I have the same content on mydomain.es/en/ - English language on native domain and on mydomain.com/en - English language on international site there will be no penalty from google due to duplicate content? Is this true? If so it solves my problem...

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

That is correct there will be no duplicate content penalty.  can I get an oh yea!

 

Just think of all the hard work you put into your content SEO, then multiplex that out by ccTLD.  Run the multishop sitemap...so if you have 1000 indexed links, you now double that for each ccTLD, 2000 3000 etc.   It ain't rocket science and not many cms's support it, but PrestaShop 1.5 does, and my MultiShop module for 1.4 and 1.3.

 

Also keep in mind, a visitor from Spain is much more interested in a .es than a .com.  And you can set the new .es defaults to better match that country, language currency etc.

[Tine Chem]

El Patron,

 

Thank you for clearing this for me. Oh yea

 

I have one more question. Does it matter which domain I set as main (install back office on it) or it does not matter? Is it better to make my main default page on mydomain.es or can I make it on mydomain.com and than just enter another store with .es domain?

 

What would you suggest. 

 

Thanks

[El Patron]

El Patron,

 

Thank you for clearing this for me. Oh yea

 

I have one more question. Does it matter which domain I set as main (install back office on it) or it does not matter? Is it better to make my main default page on mydomain.es or can I make it on mydomain.com and than just enter another store with .es domain?

 

What would you suggest. 

 

Thanks

 

ooops....sorry so late an answering, another community member ref this thread for similar question.

 

the main domain url is not important.  for 1.5+ multishop, it's your installation domain name.

 

hope you got all this sorted out and are making loads of money.