Is different languages content - duplicate content?

Hi all

Here is a question that has been bothering me lately.

Most of my sites are available in 2-3 languages: english, romanian, russian.

Each page contains same content, but translated to different languages. How does that affect the PR and my index overall?

Do the romanian and russian versions somehow decrease the value of the english version? Or search engines can detect different languages content?

domain.com/en/page-link
domain.com/ro/page-link
domain.com/ru/page-link

Will these be considered as separate pages, and not as duplicate?

P.S. I am using the appropriate "content-language" HTML META on all pages, is that enough?

Thx for the time

 

Hello,
As I hear, the pages will be different. I read it in the official Google page, but I did not find out where is it... Try to search in Google..

Best,
Jakomo

 

Yea, translated content does not equal duplicate content, which is good news.

 

I don't think that they will be counted as dublicate content cause their target audience is different.

 

Definately not duplicate, the word "hello" and "alloha" are completely different. Search both and you will get completely different sets of results.

 

i try this one on my blog and it works fine...

 

if you have transleted your content to the other languages, it will not be considered as duplicate content

 

Thank you all for the replies, it is a good thing to know that none of you have had bad experience with this, so I guess I will also be fine

 

I do not think that different languages count as duplicate content.

You should not wory about that thing

regards

 

I have one question to all of you, if they are different than some one can copy whole content of one site in to another language and get benefit of that site without any effort. how can it possible??

so my opinion is search engine will consider those content as a copy content if it belongs to different owner. for exp if one person own all this TLd a.com, a.co.in,a.fr, a.ca and use same content in different language than it wont be copy content.but if one person having a.com and another person own a.fr and copy whole content in France language than it will be a copy content.
one have question that how search engine take care of copy content in different language than i have answer is Google have language translation tool so they can easily catch copy content in different language.

looking for other webmaster's comments

thanks

 

Hi mate;

Search engine will look the word on both versions. Both version (France and English) will have different words. Because of this, it will not be considered duplicate content

and you are saying that without effect but i think translating is an effort

 

I would agree with you, but I haven't read somewhere that Google is checking for copy content in different languages.

Even if it does, what is the probability that the same words will appear.

Maybe if someone used the Google translation tool to do that. I used the tool for my needs, but never checked if traversing the translation will give the same results. Now I will do that for this text to German and back to English and list the results in quotes.

...and this is the result

I believe that Google with their translation technology will not catch the text copied and translated to another language.

regards

 

agree with SKxprt, But still the question is there. any one can copy site to another language and get benefits of free content without any effort. search engine must have some track of it.

 

I agree with you about this. I was just thinking the same thing while reading this thread.

 

Hi,

from my research on this subject Google says:

for in site usage

for usage in different countries

The final verdict could be that Google does not check for translated duplicate content.

I still leave this question open since I haven't researched for long enough to be sure about it.

Regards

 

What about Chinese(Traditional) and Chinese(Simplified)? I heard that they are written in a different characters but they are sharing the same meaning? If a page is displayed in both Chinese(Traditional) and Chinese(Simplified), will it be courted as duplicate content?

 

Translated content is not a duplicate content.
You have nothing to worry about and you should rank fairly well.

 

almost all member saying same thing as it will not penalize but can you have any experience or any resource for that.