Impact of multilingual URLs on SEO

Question

Do I need to use multilanguage in my URLs? For example:

http://mygermanwebsite.example/product/foo
http://mygermanwebsite.example/produkte/

Does that have any effect on Google searches? For example I'm searching for "produkte", will both versions have the same ranks on Google searches?

Answer 1

As far as I know the URIs doesn't really have an effect for the ranking. You could use http://mygermanwebsite.com/9772 instead and it wouldn't matter.

Answer 2

It will improve your google rankings a lot. Use URL rewrite technology to make this possible without lot of work.