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If you canonicalise appropriately, it is fine. Use rel="canonical" to specify that the pages are identical, and hreflang for the alternate languages.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://example.org/es/ads/2">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.org/en/ads/2">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="https://example.org/...
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It is more user friendly to translate slugs, but don't expect, it will bump your site's ranking like a bomb.
Google is able to translate URLs by itself, so it can match a meaning of a page with english URL and italian content.
URL translation could lightly improve your user metrics and user experience, which are ranking factors too.
Also, if you do it, do ...
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With the rel=canonical across languages (eg, de -> canonical -> en), you're saying that these pages are equivalent and that you have a preference regarding which URL to index. If that's the case, if you think the translated boilerplate doesn't add more value (which might be the case), then that (I'd call it "canonical language") seems like a good setup.
If,...
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Yes! In a recent blog post we mentioned:
Your [rel-alternate-hreflang] annotations should be self-referential. Page A should use rel-alternate-hreflang annotation linking to itself.
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The typical format for a locale is comprised of the two letter language code followed by the two letter country code. For example, here is a list of all the locales supported by Java:
Language Country Locale ID
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Albanian Albania ...
answered May 12 '14 at 15:29
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Canonical tags are no longer needed in the mark up for multilingual sites, you can see here where Google no longer recommends using canonicals in multilingual markup (the struck out section):
new markup for multilingual content (old blog post)
So this just leaves you with two options, use either rel="alternate" hreflang="x" tags or use the rel="alternate" ...
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Splash screens are acceptable according to Google. They do offer some best practices however, when using multi-language/multi-regional sites.
In this article, Google recommends the use of the hreflang tag within <link rel="alternate" ... /> tag in the head. The specific excerpt from the article is below:
For language/country selectors or ...
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It is a confusing state of affairs, but here are some pointers:
Don't use the canonical tag in the way you were thinking. Content translated into several languages is not duplicate content. So you don't want to be pointing /fr/ --canonical--> /en/ at all. Use rel="alternate" hreflang="en" instead. Use canonical within a given language to account for ...
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Many multi-lingual sites don’t have the language tag for the default/primary language in the URL¹, but I think it’s better to include it. So yes, in my opinion, it’s not only good design, it’s the best.
Its suggesting itself to use the root page as a site/language chooser. I think there are three ways how this page can work:
Redirect (based on certain ...
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Definitely keep the <link> tags in your <head> section. I've never read anywhere that Google actually acknowledges rel="alternate" on <a> tags. Also many other bots may only retrieve the <head> of your documents, so if those <link> tags aren't in the header, they may never actually see them. But I don't think that having the rel=...
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Ok. Found the answer at:
Help Google serve the correct language to your visitors
We need to have a url tag for each of the url and specify the others as alternate urls.
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You should use the lang attribute (e.g., on the html element) to declare the language, not a meta tag.
This allows you to overwrite the language declaration for other parts on the page (note the lang attributes in my example markup for a language switcher).
Anyway, having a few words in a different language shouldn’t affect your SEO at all, whether you use ...
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This is the language which dominates because there are many countries which use the same language. That's why, you need to specify to language first and then precise with the country.
Thus, the most appropriate is http://www.example.com/en-in/.
However, there is no impact on SEO, it's just a standard.
For this kind of stuff, you can just take a look how ...
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As of Jun 10, 2014 Google recommends either ccTLDs, Subdomains with gTLDs or Sub-directories with gTLDs. URL parameters such as ?lang=en are not recommended:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en#2
(Funny that the page which says that it's not recommended to use URL parameters for this, is actually doing exactly this.)
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Bing absolutely does. Before I told it not to it would continually submit both a contact form and a survey form. I knew it was Bingbot because I included $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] in the $_POST information. No other spider ever submitted those forms.
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For users either a 302 or 307 redirect is fine. The only practical difference between those and a 301 redirect is caching. Browsers cache a 301 redirect. If the user changes their browser language settings, it would be better if they were able to visit the root page and redirect differently. So using a non-cachable 302 or 307 redirect is appropriate.
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answered May 25 '19 at 10:50
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You need to include the "/" URL in your Sitemap file and specify it as the hreflang "x-default". That way, Google will know that this is a part of your set of pages, and will be able to handle it appropriately. Note that hreflang is a signal, and not a directive for Google, so it might be that the "/" URL still occasionally shows up.
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If you don't have a specific locale, you can just specify the language. Google give an example here: rel="alternate" hreflang="x"
If you have several alternate URLs targeted at users with the same
language but in different locales, it's a good idea to provide a
generic URL for geographically unspecified users. For example, you may
have specific ...
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They can and do. I've got a simple email collection form on the front of a site I'm about ready to launch. I just received a submission from that form from IP 66.249.73.214, which is a GoogleBot IP.
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The hreflang tags are on all these URLs yet Google hasn't pick up the global site
Assuming that you're intending the last link to be the "global site", since you indicated that to be default page with hreflang="x-default", which doesn't target any specific language or locale, then it's not necessary to specify the canonical link on each language specific ...
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I think that what you'll want to do is change the way your system works. If no language is specified in the URL, but you detect the language via the browser settings, then your site should redirect the user to a URL with that language in the path. This is for two reason:
1) Duplicate content. Spiders/Bots will come to test.com/books, test.com/booken, and ...
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In each language-specific page, ensure you have the language set. Either use the <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ll-cc"> tag in the section of your page, where "ll-cc" stands for the culture code of the language and country/region the content applies to, or use the lang="ll-cc" attribute on either the <html> or the <title> tag ...
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The URLs should be in the same language as the content. Ideally you would also translate the relevant path segments (like "product" in your example), not only the slug.
A URL that’s in a language users might not understand is useless for them. A good URL is descriptive, it gives an idea what the content is about. If it’s in a language the users don’t ...
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I think it’s better to include the language code for the default language, too. Quoting the pros from my answer on Stack Overflow:
If you decide to change the default language, you don’t have to change your URLs.
Consistency.
It allows you to redirect from / based on the visitor’s language preference.
It’s a signal that your site is available in ...
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There is nothing wrong with your desire to clean the URL's up a but per-sey, however I will point out a few things here...
Users are generally accepting of having a language code in the URL (either as a sub domain or as a directory of the main domain).
You are correct that it is best not to have the language code as a URL parameter as that can easily be ...
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So you have a page with content (in the body) in one language, and you want to provide the metadata (in the head) in multiple languages.
HTML
In general this is easily possible by providing corresponding lang attributes (see an example with multiple meta-keywords in different languages), but it doesn’t work in two cases:
You can only have one title element.
...
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Separate IP addresses for different languages is not in and of itself something that can improve SEO. Hosting content within the country to which it is targeted can improve SEO. There are a couple reasons for this:
Googlebot can use hosting location as one signal to determine that a site is meant for an audience in a specific country. You get better ...
answered Oct 22 '18 at 13:36
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Your German site isn't 100% translated. It has an English footer, site notice, and privacy policy. If all of those were translated, I would bet that Googlebot wouldn't see your site as duplicate anymore.
Your home page has 13 words that are translated and 20 words that are not. Given that ratio, you might understand how Google wouldn't see your German ...
answered Oct 23 '18 at 13:23
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Wherever you put the hreflang is fine you have to use only one of the above methods. Find the methods suggested by Google here: Tell Google about localized versions of your page
Methods for indicating your alternate pages There are three ways to indicate multiple language/locale versions of a page to Google:
HTML Tags
HTTP Headers
Sitemap
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