I want to run a wordpress with two languages and two versions are of the same content (English and Traditional Chinese, maybe +Simplified Chin.) Not translation plugin. I want two versions can be indexed by search engines so that when people search in different language, they can also find my site. The most important thing is that I need a SEO-friendly plugin. No matter people searching in which language, they can also find my site. I hear WPML is really great but I want a free plugin to start my WP. Is qTranslate OK? but I found s problem. When I use the lang other than the default one to search and link back to the home page via clicking on the blog title, it will change back to the default lang. I think I need to modify the script but I am wory I don't know how to do it... Anyways, is there any other better plugin? THANK YOU!
qTranslate is the best free plugin I know of for multilanguage sites. As far as your linking problem, you would need to specify the URL of the alternate language homepage. In your example, using English and Traditional/Simp Chinese, you would have yourblogurl.com for English. To send someone to the homepage already in whichever Chinese language you chose, you would point them to the specific URL for the homepage in that language, yourblogurl.com/cn for example. The actual URL depends on how you set your site up. If you look at the http://www.qianqin.de/ website (official site for qTranslate), you see that they have German (Deutsch) and English. The main page loads in English. All their German language pages show up under the /de folder. To send someone to the home page of that site with it showing the German language, you just would give them the URL with /de on the end, http://www.qianqin.de/de in this case. You would need to do some editing. Probably the easiest way to solve the problem would be to modify the theme file for the header to make it so that two flags (images) appear next to the site title, which are click-able and take the user to their respective home pages. EDIT: Just did some quick searching. The following is from the qTranslate developer regarding the site title resetting the language when it is clicked.