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Ok, that all sounds great. Let me know as soon as you can please - I have the pages translated and all ready to go - we can refine it on the test site.

Things to consider:

• Sitemap - needs to output localised URLs (I would prefer to use your hola.aspx solution where possible and /es-es/ where not)
• Working with different portal alises

Out of interest - how do spiders work - do they ever have a culture? ie. can you get a spanish spider that hits the site and gets the spanish variant or is a spider indifferent to culture and depends on URLs only?

Also - any idea how the home page would work? I assume default lang remains the same but the es version would be something like "www.pokerdiy.com/hogar.aspx    (or casa?)".

Keep me informed please.

Thanks

I think that there is no spiders for eatch language, there is only one spider, with no language, so the home page is only crawled in the default portal language.

The only way to have the home page crawled in the different languages is to have differnt allises (www.pokerdiy.es or es.pokerdiy.com)

The benefit is also that you can control you site in the google webmaster tools and also bing and yahoo  webmaster tools, in a different way for eatch site. Because you can define or verifie the langue in the web mastertools.

I have also seen that bing realy use the locale of the page for local search. Google use more the domain extention.

more info : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-start-multilingual-site.html

Bruce - any update? The Spanish world needs you!