Re: UKNM: Multilingual sites

[Lee Rickler]

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From: Lee Rickler <leeurbanmediadesigns [dot] com>

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>>Just as  a _very_ basic answer I had a french version of UMD running last

>>year.

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>>The version francais attracted roughly .01% of the overall traffic.

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>If you are going to post up other language versions of web pages it is a

>good idea to promote them via the other language search engines etc. Why

>would anyone look for a page in French using an English search engine?


Did I mention only using English searchers ?

Pardon moi !


>Research proves that people who do not have English as a first language,

>even when they are fluent in English as a second language, will almost

>always prefer to use non-English search engines.


Like Yahoo and Alta Vista, (localised of course)


>If anyone needs any help with international and multi-language campaigns,

>the best source is Euromarketing - contact in the UK is

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paula_caruanaeurouk [dot] com or mail me off list for further suggestions.

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>Ray Taylor +44 181 639 0015

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taylornmcadplan [dot] com

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