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: Is it bad for SEO to load a page with multiple languages switchable via JavaScript? For technical reasons I have to host multi-language support directly in my HTML code and display only the

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Posted in: #Language #Seo #Shopify

For technical reasons I have to host multi-language support directly in my HTML code and display only the chosen language based on a cookie (user can switch)

<span class="language language-fra">BONJOUR</span>
<span class="language language-eng">HELLO</span>

.language{display:none}
.language-fra{display:initial} // IF FRENCH SELECTED


This is for a Shopify, thus e-commerce.

Does injecting product description twice in the HTML, in different language, has an impact (positive or negative) on the SEO ?

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@Odierno851

Even though Googlebot is getting smarted about multi-lingual content and hidden content as well, Google still recommends to:

"Keep the content for each language on separate URLs."(https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en).

So, in short: yes, this is likely to negatively impact your SEO.

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