: Does Google search URLs in different languages I am building a multilingual website (from Spanish origins) however there will be English, Chinese, Spanish, and French users. We are about to buy

@Frith620

Google searches and indexes multiple languages. There are tons of question on this site about how to organize based on languages (paths, sub-domains, auto-detection, TLDs, etc).

However, it does not search automatically for translated keywords as you suggest. The assumption is that if someone is searching in a language, they will most likely want a page of the same language. In cases where few matches are found, Google does occasionally show pages in different languages but this is not the norm.

Therefore, you need to rank for each language independently. This means you need content in each language, preferable with file-paths that are meaningful in each language. Now, it OK for your domain to be in a single language as this can be seen as your brand. So you can have, for example:

blanco.com
es.blanco.com/carro
en.blanco.com/cars
fr.blanco.com/voiture

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@Vandalay111

Yes, Google and other search engine spiders will crawl multiple languages. You will want to use unique URLs for each language, however. Usually that's done by including the language code in the URL as a folder or subdomain.

Google also has some advice for providing "alternate" languages of the same page here

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