How does Google handle a page containing multiple languages?

[TheChewyTunes]

So, if you want to link to the different language page from the english original page, then do you link to the subdomain folder you made for that other language page you make in the root folder of your english page?

[TheOz1999]

What's up with all these silly backgrounds on your vids!?

[finalwebsites]

What Matt doesn't say is that this mixed language page will not rank so high as the pages from competitors ;)

You need to structure your multi language website a lot to get good google traffic for all languages.

[Twasta]

If you really want to put some time and effort into it and you don't have too many of these word, you could wrap them in something like (span lang="en")Basket(span). This should also be much better for screen readers, but of course, it generates quite an overhead.

[02javis]

well ...lets all speak American...

[compucar03]

Thanks so much for making these Matt. I really appreciate it.

[sayweb]

great question, great answer.

[DrSunnz]

What about on web sites where it is their CULTURE to mix their language, like many Hong Kong sites? How do you handle that? This practise is also know as code-switching.

[peppeddu]

A.K.A. Google doesn't like sites that have multiple languages in the same page.

So, you guys who are working to improve your foreign language skills, looks like you're out of luck when searching those pages with Google.

[adithecool]

@peppeddu I don't really know how you interpreted the video but Matt makes it pretty clear that you can have one page targeting English and another one with similar content targeting French. Just have a look at how Wikipedia do it :)

[peppeddu]

@adithecool That should be no problem for Google (to some extent, I explain below)

What I am talking about is two languages on the same page, for example, ancient books written in Latin with English side-by-side, of any pair of your favorite languages. There is no dominant language and they are both equally important.

For the pages where the language switching is done with a cookie/Ajax (not QueryString) Google doesn't know how to index it, and it grabs the default that comes without cookies.

[johncolesuk]

So I am presuming that wouldn't count as duplicate content?

[imrankhanseo]

That's Great...

Even Subdomain or else a different Directory also can work on the domain with different languages.

Thanks matt for nicely explaining and clearing the Information..

Regards

Imran Khan

[kron3r]

@imrankhanseo Just keep in mind that Subdomains aren't as strong as subdirectories. Maybe try: domain.com/en/english-content/

 or domain.com/it/italian-content/

for example. - As Opposed to en.domain.com/english-content

or it.domain.com/italian-content/

@KRONiS

[imrankhanseo]

@kron3r Yeap Right

Thanks

@Imran Khan seo

[mhaidarhanif]

So that's how it works! Nice, even I'm only using a half language.

[TechieGeek1]

So it would be nice to have a different subdomain for different languages on your site.

[schank111222]

@TechieGeek1 Or another directory or just name the page maybe about-en.html or about-fr.html