OT: Meta data in none English language websites

Question

Hi,
I have a client with web sites in English, French, German,
Spanish, Russian,
Arabic and Hindi.
The original page template for all sites has the meta data ,
ie Title,
Keywords, and Description in English.
The English version dot com shows search results around 2nd
or 3rd when
using Google.com or Google. (country) ie Google.com.au etc.
I have also used others to run checks to ensure its not a
result targetted
for my previous search usage.
When using Google.(country suffix) the UK site shows but not
the actual
site in the language of the country.
The "country language" sites are in a named folder as part of
the UK version
on the
server with country flag links to them from the UK "home"
page
Questions,-
1. Would it be better to have the meta data in the language
of the site -
although all other page code will be in English?
2. Would it improve position if the web sites were placed in
a server in the
respective countries?
3. Instead of having a language conversion in a folder of the
main site, is
it better to purches the domain name with a relevant country
suffix, ie
www.mysite.de etc,?
4. Anybody else with a similar web management set up having
gone through the
options able to impart some advice.
TIA
SB

Answer 1

Thanks for that Joe....
"Joe Makowiec" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On 22 Mar 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Art wrote:
>
>> 1. Would it be better to have the meta data in the
language of the
>> site - although all other page code will be in
English?
>
> The page code is in HTML, not English... Keyword
metadata isn't all that
> useful, so I wouldn't spend much time on them. The
description meta and
> the title tag are part of the page data, and (IMHO)
should be in the same
> language as the page.
>
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