Multilingual Sites: Okay from an SEO Perspective?
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Avoid this.
TheGreyMatter
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Think of this from a regular user's perspective - I love your blog and come to read an article every day. Suddenly, I see a Spanish article that goes over my head because I don't understand the language. I open it and close it instantly increasing your bounce rate.
The more Spanish articles you post, the weirder I feel and stop reading.
If it negatively impacts the average user, it will have a negative impact on Google as well.
If you can figure out a way to separate the two so that if I am a native Spanish speaker and want to read it in Spanish, maybe that would help but this has to be done somehow without annoying the English readers.
The more Spanish articles you post, the weirder I feel and stop reading.
If it negatively impacts the average user, it will have a negative impact on Google as well.
If you can figure out a way to separate the two so that if I am a native Spanish speaker and want to read it in Spanish, maybe that would help but this has to be done somehow without annoying the English readers.
Thelastlellek
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Isn’t there a plug-in for WordPress that let’s you have the option to read an article in different languages? Like clicking on a Flag to switch county’s ? Like some pages do like page.com/en and page.com/es
In that case it would only be a benefit because native speakers that did not learn a different language could also read the Blog
hideath
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Expanding your website to different languages will do help to target more locations & a bigger audience,
You'll have to use hreflangs, separate and translate blog/category & different kind of other pages for other languages,
You can set most of these using a WordPress plugin like WPML or TranslatePress and it really covers all of the needed work/changes,
From the SEO point of view, it works just fine and you can target different keywords in the targetted languages
It does have a separate language page(s) that do contains the specific language posts/pages
You'll have to use hreflangs, separate and translate blog/category & different kind of other pages for other languages,
You can set most of these using a WordPress plugin like WPML or TranslatePress and it really covers all of the needed work/changes,
From the SEO point of view, it works just fine and you can target different keywords in the targetted languages
This is far away from being a multilingual website/blog,
It does have a separate language page(s) that do contains the specific language posts/pages
fb3003
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are you a news site?!
i suggest use the category concept and once a user goes into a certain language category, he does not see other languages.
schttrj
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No, I am not a news site, but Google suggests using subdirectories. Categories will probably not do.
fb3003
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sub directories = much higher maintenance on your side. you willing to do that?
schttrj
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yes, it does mean higher amount of work. I am curious, are you sure categories will work?
fb3003
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can you provide a comparable example of your site? you mentioned that you are not a news site, however, you have blog posts in different languages. would like to see a comparable example. to me it does not make sense from making money perspective
SpiralHat
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TranslatePress offers this, you can show different article on the same page for anyone who clicks on the language through a little flags language menu.
Also offers the ability for backlinks, images etc..
Cool feature is the auto translate option which uses DeepL API to translate all pages in any language you like
schttrj
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It's not my site but my client's. So have to incorporate this even if it does not make any sense. Just making sure that it is still done the right way.
For example, let's say we are running a blog. And 10 articles posted on it are in English and another 5 are posted in Spanish. There are no specific categories for the Spanish content. They are being posted in the same categories as are the English content. So we have the option of creating a whole separate subdirectory for the Spanish content (which probably Google suggests and is a lot of work) or we can create a silo inside the same blog subdirectory. Therein lies the dilemma.
Yeah, but we have Spanish writers in the team and we would like to create separate URLs for the Spanish content. I don't how TranslatePress works though. Will have to give it a look.
SpiralHat
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This is also possible with the plugin
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There are some plugins in WordPress that let’s you have the option to read an article in different languages? Like clicking on a Flag to switch to another language which you want to add. I.E its work like sample.com/en and sample.com/es
SpiralHat
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Yeah wpml, polylang and translatepress all have this but translatepress also offers on switch to language based on ip/browser which can be good
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multilingual content is hard work, especially if they are all on the same page
It is better to use a subdomain and put a good content with a second language in it. The problem with this is that it takes up a lot of space and may cause problems.
It is better to use a subdomain and put a good content with a second language in it. The problem with this is that it takes up a lot of space and may cause problems.
0verflow
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The best approach is to keep the multilingual content on it's respective directory/domain.
Wrong:
English: domain.com/blog/english-blog
Spanish: domain.com/blog/spanish-blog
Good:
English: domain.com/blog/english-blog
Spanish: domain.com/es/blog/spanish-blog or domain.es/blog/spanish-blog
Don't forget to use the hreflang tag in the header to notify crawler/browser about the language of the page.
Like this: <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en-es/" hreflang="en-es" />
Wrong:
English: domain.com/blog/english-blog
Spanish: domain.com/blog/spanish-blog
Good:
English: domain.com/blog/english-blog
Spanish: domain.com/es/blog/spanish-blog or domain.es/blog/spanish-blog
Don't forget to use the hreflang tag in the header to notify crawler/browser about the language of the page.
Like this: <link rel="alternate" href="https://www.domain.com/en-es/" hreflang="en-es" />