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Avoiding 'Translate this page'

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by daamsie, Dec 9, 2004.

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    Hi all,

    We have recently translated whole slabs of our site into several different languages to take advantage of a whole new set of keyphrases. It's working pretty well, but I've noticed something interesting in the Google results that allows for some improvement. Foreign language pages usually get a 'Translate this page' link next to them if they aren't in the language being searched for. Now, for some reason, Google thinks that our Spanish pages are English. I'd like to know how it decides this, because it seems to affect our rankings when searching in Spanish.

    English search for "Hostales Madrid" has us at 9 at the moment
    A Spanish search has us at 13

    On the English results page we are one of the few to have 'Translate this page' next to our page. On the Spanish, we are the first one to have 'Translate this page' next to our result.

    Now, how can I go about convincing Google?? I doubt it cares about doctypes, as the no1 has the following:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

    and Google figures it's Spanish.

    Is it purely based on how much of the text is in Spanish / English ? Currently hostel descriptions are in English, so maybe that is enough to tip it over the edge. Any ideas?
     
    daamsie, Dec 9, 2004 IP