All of our content is in English. Why would you split your efforts and create a new website? So what you're going to do is open up a new directory that's very explicitly another language. You want to follow the two-letter naming convention so Google understands exactly what it is. And then you are just having your content and machine translated.
Eli Schwartz is the Director of SEO and Growth at SurveyMonkey. He came in to answer commonly asked questions about SEO.
Eli blogs about SEO and growth at elischwartz.co
You can find him on Twitter at 5le.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
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Topics
00:23 - Does SEO matter in 2018?
2:23 - Where should a company start with SEO?
3:53 - Who’s doing SEO well?
4:48 - Why is Amazon doing SEO well?
5:48 - How should you crosslink?
7:33 - Paying for links
7:58 - SEO don’t dos
8:38 - Things that are no longer useful in SEO
9:43 - Keywords
13:08 - Reviews
13:48 - Content
17:48 - Images
23:08 - Link building
28:23 - How much time to give SEO?
28:53 - Mobile
30:58 - Ranking
32:08 - International SEO
34:18 - Translation
37:38 - International search
39:53 - GDPR
42:13 - Hiring someone to do SEO
44:08 - What to do when you organic SEO disappears
46:53 - Metrics for an SEO hire
48:53 - Tools for SEO
50:23 - Getting started in SEO