Part of the problem of dynamic sites like this is in the viewing: Link list operators, search engine bots, and end users will all probably see different versions of the site.
Your biggest longterm concern is the bots. If you are going to go through the process to create the equivelant of five sites, well, why not just build the five sites? The SE bots will only index one of them (whatever the default is for the region the bot is in, if you are IP filtering). That means all your work on the other four will go unnoticed.
Secondary to that is link sites. Dynamic sites are a pain in the ass because there is no way to see if you are offering the same experience to all the surfers. I would be thinking "Is he sending some to dailers, some to console hell, some to disney?"... when I am not sure what the content of the site really is going to be, I have less interest in listing the site.
Unless you site(s) are going to be 100% self create traffic (using traffic pumps and other redirectors to the site) you will have a hard time capitalizing on all your work to get it done right.
I would suggest that you might want a "third level" solution - make your
www. site "american english" and then make version of "spanish." and "japanese." and "nocreditcardpeople." whatever... then have the index page on WWW allow people to choose an alternate entrance, perhaps even detect and offer them the entrance in their correct language. Done right, you can even get the bots to actually go and see ALL of the sites, which means you benefit the most from all your work.
Just stream of though here... enjoy :-)
Alex
2003-10-25, 02:31 PM
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