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Locale code in route versus in query string for i18n
They should be identical as far as SEO is concerned, because Google doesn't look in the URL to determine language - to determine language they actually use machine learning on the text content itself.
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How to tell Google that each subfolder is a different site? Otherwise, Google appends the main site's name to every other subfolder
Within another context I have given these examples of how to use hreflang and canonical links. For your purpose I added structural data in the head section of both examples with meta tags indicating ...
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How to tell Google that each subfolder is a different site? Otherwise, Google appends the main site's name to every other subfolder
We checked today on November 29th and the title in the SERP no longer has the - Foobar USA appended to the end. It is now just Foobar Korea (not Foobar Korea - Foobar USA).
Here is what we did
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Hreflang for regions (like states and provinces) within a country
In short, no. The "Supported language/region codes" section of Google's hreflang guidelines is fairly unambiguous:
The value of the hreflang attribute identifies the language (in ISO 639-1 format) ...
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How reliably does Google determine a user's region, in order to pick the right hreflang option (specifically en-gb vs. en-nz)?
We would set up an hreflang="en" or hreflang="x-default" for the primary site, and an hreflang=en-uk just for the UK site
Couple of corrections here.
For the global English content hreflang="en" ...
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Internationial SEO with different alias domains
Edit based on Joao's comment*
The domains in question are cctld, i.e .es, .it, .pt. Geotargeted subfolders on country specific domains don't work well, if the top level domain is generic (i.e. .com) ...
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How to make sure Chinese text is rendered in webpage?
If the specified font doesn’t contain a glyph for a character, browsers typically use a fallback font to render this character.
(Browsers don’t have do this, of course, and how it exactly works ...
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.co.uk site showing up for brand name searches from the US even when targeted .com site is available
I think the proper heading looks something like this:
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com" hreflang="en-us" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.co.uk" hreflang="en-gb" /&...
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Locale code in route versus in query string for i18n
From an SEO perspective, it doesn't matter. However, in the general case, using query-based language configuration complicates server code all over the place. It makes handling forms slightly more ...
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Root index.html file of a multi-language website
Search engines love multiple-languages and are super flexible
Google and Bing are very flexible when it comes to structuring a website with multiple languages. The first thing you should know about ...
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Do you use the country or country and language for subdomains?
Google determines language by running your page through a machine learning algo, they don't use tags:
Google uses the visible content of your page to determine its language. We don’t use any code-...
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Is it bad for SEO have the same site on a .gr and a .com with both English and Greek content?
A .gr domain will only ever rank on Google for searchers from Greece. There is no way to target a .gr domain to worldwide users of Google. See I'm using a vanity country code top level domain (ccTLD)...
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How will geo-ip redirects affect which geo-targeted pages Google indexes?
Your indexing is going to be spotty. Google may index some of both sites. It will index mostly your international site because Google does most of its crawling from the US.
Auto-redirection based ...
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For language URLs, should the default language gets its own subdirectory or take the document root?
Either way can work fine for SEO. There is going to be no difference in crawl rate. Targeting can be done either way with hreflang. I have a site with great SEO with English at the root of the ...
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Does a contact form need to ask the user for explicit permission to be GDPR compliant?
I have a contrary opinion on this. I don't believe your checkbox collects any additional consent from the user that just submitting the form does, so I believe the checkbox can be removed because it ...
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SEO impact of default language duplication vs redirects
Regardless of redirects (Saw your comment), if you don't set hreflang annotations and canonicalize pages Google will likely consider them duplicates.
Via document <head>
<head>
<title&...
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How do I do a basic multilingual site with worpress and use `/xx/` as the language separator?
This is definitely something you can achieve in WordPress.
However, you'll need a plugin like WPML or Polylang in order to achieve this.
With WPML for example you'll use the install wizard to choose ...
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Multilanguage Website with language parameters inside URL and HTACCESS redirect
Two points here.
Conditional redirection and SEO
The conditional redirection isn't a problem if correctly configured. In Google's case, they're now using "locale aware crawling", whereby their ...
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Is it for SEO okay to mix the subfolder structure between /lang/ & /lang-country/?
This should be fine.
It probably doesn’t affect SEO. Consumers would have no reason to parse the URL path segment if they could just parse the rel-alternate+hreflang markup instead, which is ...
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Should an ecommerce website be translated when moving into a new country, or a new site built from scratch?
Multi-regional and multilingual sites
A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than
one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a
Canadian business with an ...
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Serve index.html by language and charset (a thing from the past)
Those files are almost certainly meant to be served via Apache content negotiation. Since there does not appear to be a .var file to serve as an explicit type map, and since the file name extensions ...
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Serve index.html by language and charset (a thing from the past)
I would recommend issuing redirects so that search engines can view unique urls for each language. Here are some rewrite rules that you could use in your .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-...
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Does any major website have a language specific sub-directories rather than sub-domains?
Yes there are some sites that still do use the subdirectory name for different languages. Most have moved away from that method and are using domain names such as example.es instead of es.example.com.
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Internationalisation Hreflang - site traffic destroyed
Here is the full correct targeting:
<!-- UK -->
<link rel="alternate" href="http://blah.com/stuff" hreflang="en-gb" />
<!-- EU Targeting-->
<link rel="alternate" href="http://...
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Correct hreflang tag for Brazilian Portuguese speakers in the UK
Unfortunately, the hreflang standard does not specify regional varieties of languages. You can target by language, or by language and region, but that should be enough to target most users accurately.
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How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?
The latest adoption into this direction like Single Page Application (SPA) for SAAS based products -
Using different websites for different countries will be lose link juice that would otherwise go ...
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Arabic keywords in URL in two levels
I have pages indexed with Google with arabic and foreign characters in the URL. I think this is good for driving foreign traffic to my site. One link looks like this: example.com/अजमेर
I'm also using ...
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One company two domains for two countries - Google Search
You have to use hreflangs so Google knows which site is for which country.
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.example.com/" />
As stated here:
https://support.google.com/...
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