Hello everyone, I have a Joomla site which ranks well in Google (example.nl). This page is in Dutch. I also have two other languages (English and German). I have all three languages now in one Joomla installation. The problem I have is that when I use adwords in for example the USA, the URL will be "example.nl/en". Therefore I would like to split the site in multiple installations: .com , .nl, .de. Secondly I've read on multiple sources that Wordpress has better possibilities than Joomla with respect to ranking so I am thinking to make the .com installation in Wordpress. I use a pre-defined template which is available for both Joomla and Wordpress so I can make it look the same. So in the old situation I have one multi-language site based on Joomla. In the new situation I have one .nl site (Joomla), one .com site (Wordpress) and a third one (to be defined). So the sites have different domains (.nl / .com / .de), different systems (Joomla/Wordpress) but the same content. My question is: how does Google SEO respond to this? Will this cause ranking problems ? Thank you very much for your advise. Highly appreciated.
If that "same content" is in different languages, and you are using at the very LEAST the LANG attribute in your HTML tag, Google will be somewhat forgiving of that duplication. Though unless you've bent both Joomla and Turdpress over the table and made them your bitch in terms of what they vomit up for markup, duplicate content is the least of your worries given what utter and complete trash they both are; particularly if you are using the default template or some garbage off the shelf template... and no, idiotic code bloat BS like "Yoast" doesn't help. (In fact it typically does more harm than good!)
Thank you for your quick reply. "Somehwhat forgiving" does not sound very good Do you think it is better to keep all languages on one domain and one CMS system? Or option two: install a second identical Joomla version and only install English version on .com, and Dutch on .nl ?