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I have a website that targets people in English speaking countries, French speaking countries and the Afrikaans community. How do i cater for the needs of both localization, usability and seo

How should I structure the site & the multiple versions of the site in different languages. What is the best strategy which will ensure that I still retain the benefits of seo and usability.

I have the current options
1. Directory structure
**a directory for each language version of the site
2. Subdomain structure
**a domain for each language version of the site
3. Filename option
**a different file name for each version of the website in different languages
4. Accept-Language header
** use the Accept-Language header and generate content server-side to suit that header

Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines?

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Member Avatar for rakesvyas44

I want to ask you one thing that still domain name is importantof related keyword in SEO.

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

@rakesvyas44, nope I don't think its' important in terms of SEO !

Member Avatar for OtisGross

You can use the hreflang tag to show search engines what the relationship is between web pages in alternate languages. It's useful when you've created content that's specific to a local audience. It adds a signal to search engines that a user querying in certain language will want this result instead of a page with similar content.

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