different language same content

how is it weighed in rankings, the same content but different languages...is it considered duplicate conetent?...

whats the best set-up for a site with different languages that is good for google...


thank you very much...

 

I think it is not duplication. It increases the quality of website if it in different languages.

 

It will not considered as duplicate content!

 

Any proves of that?

 

I don't think it will have any duplicate issue, there are many corporate sites offering different language pages for different countries, Google is best example.

 

No it is not considered duplicate content.
The best setup would be either sub domains, or sub directories. (I prefer sub directories, but that's just me)

1: sub domains

example.com/ English homepage
example.com/page1.html
example.com/page2.html

fr.example.com/ French homepage
fr.example.com/page1.html
fr.example.com/page2.html

ge.example.com/ German homepage
ge.example.com/page1.html
ge.example.com/page2.html

jp.example.com/ Japanese homepage
jp.example.com/page1.html
jp.example.com/page2.html
... etc

2: sub directories

example.com/ English homepage
example.com/page1.html
example.com/page2.html

example.com/fr/ French homepage
example.com/fr/page1.html
example.com/fr/page2.html

example.com/ge/ German homepage
example.com/ge/page1.html
example.com/ge/page2.html

example.com/jp/ Japanese homepage
example.com/jp/page1.html
example.com/jp/page2.html
... etc

The site I made using sub directories has a link to each category/page (page1.html .. etc) on all pages of the language you are viewing, and also a link to every other languages homepage only.

I used Google translator for the translation, and also translated the title, meta description, keywords, alt tags and title tags of each page. (manually) Very time consuming, but it can pay off.

I found it interesting to see where the traffic streams came from, and how some languages reacted better to the site than others.
I also find it ironic that after translating my site from the original English to 7 other languages, English only accounts for around 25% of my visitors. So my effort has been rewarded with a big increase in visitors, and I now have a sub 40k Alexa rank.

There is a plugin for wordpress (and maybe blogger too I think) that does this translation automatically, but I am unsure how well it works. (if it does titles and descriptions etc..)

hope that helps

Cheers
James

 

According to "googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html"

 

It i different content if write in different languages, the reason is no any software able to check it and say it is duplicate. As long as you use your own word to write it in your languages or opposite.

 

I am using global translator in my blog

it show that google come to crawl my website with different language. also found that a lot traffic come from diffenent country when those people search those keyword in their own language.

I feel that should be not duplicate, it help to increase traffic too

 

thank you guys for the help...

...+rep for all of you...

 

The point you have mentioned might not necessarily be interpreted as duplicate content, especially if you are going to use all of the content pages on one single site originated from a server space. As you know, since Google has a translator, so it can notice about the content pages differences and similarities and when you have both the original and copied contents originated from a single domain, so there is nothing to worry about.