Duplicate Content Different Languages

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?

 

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.

 

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/

 

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

 

What is/isn't duplicate content?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/deftly-dealing-with-duplicate-content.html

my suggestion
www.site.com/de/
www.site.com/fr/
www.site.com/tr/

 

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

 

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.

 

Hi Kevin

That is the way we are going!

 

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