Internationalization is the process of designing and implementing a website with flexibility in how it handles language, text, number formatting, and other details that differ by culture. This makes it cheaper and easier to localize a website to different languages and cultures later.
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What is the best strategy for international sites? [duplicate]
I would really like some advice as to best launch our site internationally. This is the setup I would like: mysite.co.uk is the main UK site - the parent site.
This is a database driven site using ...
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SEO implications of having multiple languages available at same URL
I am in the process of translating a set of websites to multiple languages. Would there be any negative implications if I were to serve each different language from identical URLs?
I fully intend to ...
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Test different timezones
What is a simple way to temporarily change the timezone in Chrome so as to test how a site renders for different locations?
On OSX Mountain Lion, I've tried as bash script with:
export ...
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About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites
Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish.
In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because ...
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Which domain better for language version?
My company is based in Russia and it's website is mycompany.ru.
Now, we are planning to launch German language version and we have option for two domains:
mycompany.de
germankeyword.ru
Which one ...
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Separate URLs for localised content
Should pages which are almost identical, bar a few minor changes for particular locations, share the same URL? I am not talking of pages in different languages, but pages which have minor differences ...
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Will duplicate international (i18n) content hinder SEO rankings?
Google clearly states that duplicate content within a single, or multiple, domains is not advised. This is understood, but I am not sure of any exceptions for sites with region-specific content that ...
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How to maximize SEO of an internationalized website? [closed]
I am developing a website that should be multi languages.
I would like your opinions about what the best way to do it, considering get the most SEO possible.
I have these alternatives:
Altarnative ...
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How can I view localized versions of my site?
We are adding internationalization to our site. We are getting the client's IP address from the headers and looking it up against the IP2location database to get the client's country.
Several of ...
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How can I compile an IP address to country lookup database to make available for free?
How would I go about compiling an accurate database of IP addresses and their related countries to make available as an open source download for any web developer who wants to perform a geographic IP ...
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How to translate Umlauts and other International characters to US character set? [closed]
Is there a "translation table" that shows how International characters map to the US character set.
For example, German umlauts can be translated like:
ä = ae
ö = oe
ü = ue
or French characters ...
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Should I transliterate my URL paths?
I looked around and can't find any info on this, I must be searching the wrong terms or something because it must be a common question.
If you have non-ASCII characters in your URLs, Firefox and ...
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Site structure changes possibly led to ranking losses
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Last monday we changed our german only site from using wordpress to our own multi-lingual rails app. Since then our rankings dropped dramatically. I would like to know if the the recent ...
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Value of the HTML5 lang attribute
I'm working on a website which will offer localized content following the language+region approach as described on this W3.org page (e.g. fr-CA for Canadian French content, and fr-FR for "French ...
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Where can I get ISO lists for continent, country, and currency to use on my web pages?
I have done quite a bit of looking around, and found several lists based on the ISO standards, but of dubious quality, e.g. with null or blank entries, extra entries that are not real currencies etc.
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“good” way to redirect users and robots for internationalization?
I have a website in Spanish and English.
When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie.
I have the following URLs
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Is the Mailchimp API available in other languages?
I'm using the Mailchimp API in combination with PHP and jQuery to provide the subscribing/unsubscribing-actions on a website via Ajax.
On errors with user data you get useful messages like "Invalid ...
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What are pitfalls in SEO when internationalizing a website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?
There are 2 basic ways I have been looking into to make a website multilingual:
1. subdirectory/subdomain ...
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Can duplicate content on a .com and a .co.uk site impact google ranking? [duplicate]
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What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
Can you please tell me if launching a .co.uk version of an English .com site can cause ...
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Facelets SEO advice
Before I deploy the new version of my site, I would like to know a little more about facelets and SEO.
My previous version of site was written in JSF and I noticed that when I submitted it to the ...
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SEO considerations for multilingual websites [duplicate]
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How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I'm developing a website that will be translated into two languages: English and ...
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Language Specific URLs for SEO
I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would ...
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Chinese CAPTCHAs
I need to implement a CAPTCHA for a Chinese (Simplified) website. Does anyone know how CAPTCHAs are normally presented on Chinese sites? I have seen some which just display standard decimal numbers ...
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A JavaScript Rich Editor That Doesn't Convert Non-ASCII Text to Character Entities?
I am working on a site for Spanish speakers, and I am looking for a UTF-8 enabled JavaScript Rich Text Editor that preserves non-ascii characters as text, instead of entity encoding. That is, when I ...
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How do URLs work in a country with non-latin chars?
How do URLs work in other countries? Let's say India or China that use non A-Z characters.
Do they use English terms in the URL? Or can they write characters in urls like:
सच्चाई.html
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What's the best TLD for a personal, international website? [closed]
I'd like to register a domain for myself. On it, I'll publish SciFi stories that I'm writing. The stories will be available in English and German (the two languages that I know) but if fans want to ...
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SEO consequences for merging country sites in a .com
I am in the process of refactoring a number of rental portals I've built for a company with locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Instead of the current setting of each ...
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Right “time” for publishing on multinational/global websites?
I have a website on which I publish a daily update.
Its just german, so Germany/Austria/Switzerland which all share the same timezone.
So the system always publishes the daily new content at ...
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Language prefixes
Based on other discussions on this site and elsewhere, using flags to identify languages is the path to madness.
Nevertheless, I need an easy way to identify the language of individual content items ...
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International Domain Names - Can I just register the punycode with any registrar?
I'm thinking of getting a non-ASCII Internationalized Domain Name (e.g. thé.com). However my current domain registrar doesn't do IDNs. Their web form reports an invalid domain name when I try to enter ...
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How do I write IDN domains?
How do I write a IDN domain name with IDN codes?
E.g. mjölk.com with IDN codes? (mjölk is milk in swedish)
And is there any list of available IDN codes and letters? E.g. all possible for .com ?
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What countries require a state/province in the mailing address?
I'm creating a form and want to require / hide the state/province field based on the selected country. What countries require a state in the mailing address? For example, the United States does.
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What is the challenge with Korean websites?
I have been asked if the web CMS I work on can do Korean websites - prompted because other CMS's seemingly have problems doing this. I have no prior experience with Korean websites, but after looking ...
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Redirect based on country
Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:
www.example.com/us
www.example.com/uk
www.example.com/ca
and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go ...
