How does Google handle a page containing multiple languages?
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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?
TheChewyTunes 1 year ago
What's up with all these silly backgrounds on your vids!?
TheOz1999 1 year ago
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.
finalwebsites 1 year ago
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.
Twasta 1 year ago
well ...lets all speak American...
02javis 1 year ago
Thanks so much for making these Matt. I really appreciate it.
compucar03 1 year ago
great question, great answer.
sayweb 1 year ago
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.
DrSunnz 1 year ago
@kron3r Yeap Right
Thanks
@Imran Khan seo
imrankhanseo 1 year ago
@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.
peppeddu 1 year ago