Best practise for meta tags in various languages

Posted by Jack Lockyer on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Jack Lockyer
Published on 2012-07-05T09:00:26Z Indexed on 2012/07/05 9:23 UTC
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We have a global site, all hosted on one .com domain (www.website.com/en www.website.com/es www.website.com/pt www.website.com/ru etc)

each language sub directory is identical to one another (apart from being in different languages)

My question is, should I translate each meta keyword for each page or just use the english versions?

e.g.

English page about private jets : keyword "private jet"

French version of exactly the same page : keyword "private jet" or "jet privé"

If anyone knows whether language specific keywords carry any weight in search engines when the actual website is a .com and not a country specific domain, that would be really helpful!

Thanks in advance!

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