This refers to the optimisation of websites that provide content in multiple languages, or variants of languages. Common issues relate to mechanisms for directing users to content in their language, and addressing difficulties in targeting content to specific search engines.
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How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my urls for search engines and usability?
Let's say my site is www.example.com, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is ...
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http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language
Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">
When I go to W3C site and read about HTML ...
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Have search engines recognise multi-lingual sites
I have organised my site by language using the following structure:
www.domain.com #spanish language version homepage
www.domain.com/en #english language version homepage
The site is of Spanish ...
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Multi Language URLs
I'm building an online store that will be supported in 3 languages: English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
My question is whether or not it is a good idea to make language specific ...
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URL strategy for multilingual website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an ...
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SEO problems with multilanguage site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of my data?
I have recently started a CMS project in PHP, the site will be multilingual. ...
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Multilingual sites and Google search results, using sub-folders for language
About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder /en/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by ...
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How to name image files in multi language site?
I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example.
What would be the proper convention to name image files?
From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name ...
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Duplicate content appearing for multi lingual sites
I have a site which has a default url say "http://www.blahblah.com/" (which is default in english language). In my site there is support for multi languages. I am having few links at my home page say ...
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Multilingual site and Google search
I have a multilingual site with only one domain www.mydomain.com, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered ...
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Creating multi-language pages in Google Sites
is it possible to create pages in more than one language without having to create separate pages for each language in Google Sites?
This isn't a feature of Google Sites, but I was hoping there might ...
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How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?
A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on ...
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Multilingual and SEO URLs - best practice?
What would you recommend as a URL structure for setting up a multilingual site when optimizing for SEO?
I'm thinking:
www.yoursite.com/en/some-category/some-article/
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Different Title/Description for Google in different regions
I have multilanguage website targeting by subdomain:
http://en.site.com/ - Displays only contents in English
http://de.site.com/ - Displays only contents in German
...
http://site.com/ - Displays ...
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Do Search Engine Spider's submit POST forms?
If I have content behind a POST form (a select box, in my case) will Googlebot, or other Search Engine Spiders be able to crawl the content behind that form?
For example, if I were to have 4 ...
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SEO - Redirect on first page (site.com -> site.com/en)
I have website with multiple languages and at first entrance it checks for cookie and if no cookie is present then it defaults to English language and redirects to site.com/en.
So basically every ...
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Indexing a multilingual website
I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch).
https://mydomain.com/ redirects to the user request ...
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Multi language switch links translated or in current language?
Should I do:
A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version)
<a href="en/">English</a> |
<a href="it/">Italian</a> |
<a ...
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Google analytics and 301 redirects
We have a multilingual website and the first page redirects to specific language page using 301 redirect based on some logic.
For example: http://mysite.com/ redirects to http://mysite.com/en/
The ...
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How to inform search engines that my site support multilanguages?
The website i am working on is translated to 8 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese).
Each time the user select a language, the URL stays the same as ...
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Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP
I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure
Search engines don't see this as ...
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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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multilingual domains both crawled and come up to the wrong audience
I have a domain with multilingual support through subdomains. Each language version is identical besides the titles which are translated. e.g.:
domain.com
ja.domain.com
es.domain.com
I'm ...
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Directing Multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD with a country specific subdirectory?
We have multiple ccTLDomains and are thinking about how to best combine these into one. We want to do this to focus our link building efforts.
We are running a website through which we offer a ...
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Best practice when translating sites into multiple languages - new domains?
It's not easy to made up your mind on this kind of things.
For the same website I've got 3 domains: .fr .com .co.uk. To start with it was to avoid peeps to buy the same name.
I used have my content ...
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Does Google Analytics track users with multiple languages?
I'm assuming that when Google Analytics tracks a visitor's language it uses the Accept-language header from the request (most browser/OS combinations seem to populate it automatically).
My browser ...
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Redirect from the main page on multilanguage site
I've decided to start developing multilingual web site. Now I'm thinking about the structure. The idea is to use a simple algorithm to find out what language is most interesting to the visitor when he ...
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SEO optimization multiple region site, domains and multilingual site
I am taking SEO of our website to another level. I read a lot about it and study all aspects of how to properly handle multiple domains and languages. For now we use three domain names www.myurl.eu, ...
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Will multilingual URL fix give me SEO juice?
I'm working on a fairly large site, which has multilingual options, but not correctly implemented:
Currently:
www.example.com/this-is-a-url-of-a-certain-page
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How do you set up the directory structure for a multilingual site without duplicating content?
I want to make a website in two languages. I've looked around and settled on the directory option of separating both languages. How do I make it work?
Let's say I have the following three files for ...
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Avoid penalties for duplicate (multilanguage) shared hosting
My concern is about SEO. Now let me explain the scenario.
I am making a 3 languages website. The development is alright, but I was targeting local customers with one domain, and international ...
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Multilingual website without language component in the URL
I'm working on a website for Canada which will have French and English versions. For SEO purposes, I would like to avoid using any language tag in URLs because I believe it will have more impact (e.g. ...
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Browser language detection & content ranking for new language on the same site
I've been reading a lot about it but it's still really hard to make up my mind.
My understand is that if your website provide a link to the other language, this should not be an issue for google as ...
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Website translation check [closed]
I hope that it is not so stupid question but is there some service or forum where another users (native speakers) can check and review my translated web site? I don't want to check dozens of pages but ...
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How does google react to duplicate pages with text in a different language?
If there is a copy of a site in another language, but with same resource filenames, does Google not like the fact that the resources aren't in the same language as the page?
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3 language website using subdomains and mapped domains. Add subdomains or mapped domains to WMT?
I have a new wordpress multisite setup.
The main language is Italian and there are two subdomains using en and de for english and german.
There is no auto translation plugins being used.
The ...
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Multilingual sites SEO and canonical
I'm in the process of improving the SEO in one of our client's multilingual sites. Currently the site passes a user the site in their preferred language by checking for a language cookie set by the ...
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Does Google search URLs in different languages
I am building a multilingual website (from Spanish origins) however there will be English, Chinese, Spanish, and French users.
We are about to buy a domain however I am confused as to what language I ...
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Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain
I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per ...
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Amazon affiliate and multilanguage
I do not know where else to post this question, I hope this StackExchange site is the right one.
I have a multi-language site (blog), with several reviews pointing to amazon affiliate product page. ...
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multilingual mobile site and google seo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
What's the preferred SEO compliance for a mobile website that is multilingual ?
I have -
web:
en: ...
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Multilingual Support on a PHP Website
I have a very basic PHP website that is currently setup for two languages like so:
lang.en.php - English strings
lang.es.php - Espanol strings
en/ - folder with PHP pages (PHP first processes the ...
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Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics
We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian.
Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages.
Problem: We get data for the default ...
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Make DotNetNuke Multilingual
I have a site with DotNetNuke and i want to create content available in different languajes. I was checking the dnn options and i can choose a language but it doesn't change my content. Not even the ...
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Can search engines change language and read the cookie?
I am building a multi language website in PHP and prepared all my strings in English by default using gettext()
My locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo file is working correctly and now I need to sort ...
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Hosted website building solution for a multilingual website
I am looking for a hosted website builder / toolkit (like Jimdo and Weebly), which supports multilingual websites.
I would like to create different language versions of my website. The detection of ...
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What to choose for a multilingual site with support for Markdown and commenting
I want to publish articles at a multilingual site.
I want to be able to write an article in two languages and have them available on separate URLs:
thesite.foo/english-breakfast
...
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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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SEO considerations for multilingual websites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Multilanguage website optimized for SEO
I've seen that a good choice of multilanguage while keeping a high performance for SEO, would be a duplicated content in a subfolder for each language, but this way every change must be done once for ...
