: How can a two language page (about learning a language) be optimized for search engines? I know that there are lots of docs about multi-languages website, but still cannot find a solution for

@Ogunnowo487

As this page is for people that can speak English and want to learn Italian, the URL path as well as most parts of the content (the header, the navigation, the footer, etc.) should be in English.

If you care about semantic HTML, you should use lang="en" on the html element, and lang="it" on the elements that contain the Italian translation.

I don’t agree with the suggestions to disallow indexing of these pages. People search for translations (e.g., "how is it going Italian") and you might want to rank for such queries. And people that know your site might want to search for a specific page on your site, using an external search engine (e.g., "site:example.com/italian/ how is it going"). Both of these use cases wouldn’t be possible if you noindex these pages.

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@Bryan171

How should I SEO a page like that?


you should firstly think about: what SEO value has the page? To be honest, the answer would be: nearly zero.

then you should think about users, who maybe are looking for your page. What they are looking for? Which are keywords? How high (rather low) is the search volume of those keywords?

Not every page needs to be optimized. Not every page has a value. I would noindex such pages. I would rather optimize a page, where you explain, what a unique proposition has your language studying tool, for a keywords like "learn italian online"

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