We are interested in going abroad with a product and we're wondering what might be the best way to approach this.
Has anyone applied with any degree of success, SEO techniques for international success without purchasing the domain for that country? or is it best, for example, if we own widget.com, then go ahead and buy widget.fr and optimize in that language...
dont know for sure but "hosting" your site in that country could help..........search engines like G check the ip of the website to determine its nationality.........ofcourse this is just 1 of the many criteria's of G.
I live in Canada, but my french website was hosted in USA. Since Google look at Ip adresses, my website was not showing in the SERP in Google.ca.
Changed provider, and now I am well positionned in Google.ca...