Duplicate Content Different Languages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by werner77, Mar 1, 2010.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    I need a little info about the best way to treat different languages on a website.
    Currently the website other language is setup as www.website.com/language/

    I have been advised that its better to change it to www.language.website.com

    My thinking is that the different language cannot be seen as duplicate.
    Is the content seen as duplicate in the first example(exactly translated to different language)? And what it the best way to display different languages?
     
    werner77, Mar 1, 2010 IP
  2. ca4nul

    ca4nul Active Member

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    In my opinion leave site structure as it is. Just link all language pages together.
    for example
    french translated page should be linked to english translated page etc.

    if you create a sub-domain then it is treated as new website means you need to promote and get indexes etc and again duplicate content penalty is more worse.

    i think scenario is choosing lesser evil between two.
     
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  3. abhijit

    abhijit Notable Member

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    I suggest you this and use google translater to translate you content so it won't be count as duplicate..
    http://www.website.com/en/
    http://www.website.com/de/
    http://www.website.com/fr/


     
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  4. seo555

    seo555 Peon

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    www.website.com/language/ its best bcz if you use this URL so you can get good popularity, home page PR and ranking fast
     
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  5. byybora

    byybora Well-Known Member

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  6. werner77

    werner77 Peon

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    Ok, I agree that in that article it is clear, but with the new algorithm changes it is not the same I believe.
    That Article was written in 2006. With google looking at theme decencity my thinking is that their algos(which work from english) translates from www.site.com/de/ back to english and then compares. So my thinking is safer to do the subdomain www.de.site.com
     
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  7. Kevin Knoletsch

    Kevin Knoletsch Peon

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    I don't think that multiple languages in one domain are good in terms of SEO. I tried this several times but my traffic did never increase just because I had the same existing content translated into different languages. In my opinion subdomains or seperate projects with manually translated and slightly altered content make most sence.
     
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  8. werner77

    werner77 Peon

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    Hi Kevin

    That is the way we are going!
     
    werner77, Mar 5, 2010 IP
  9. Noddegamra

    Noddegamra Peon

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    You could set up a robots.txt file to not index the other languages if this is a major concern.
    I've had no problems on a multilingual site though. The content is different. You could also ad a meta geolocation tag in the header for the other languages. That may also prevent potential SEO harm
     
    Noddegamra, Mar 5, 2010 IP