: Targetting multilingual website on Google I own a website and I really want to be on the top of Google rank (obviously), when you search by my full name. If you search from a computer, that
I own a website and I really want to be on the top of Google rank (obviously), when you search by my full name.
If you search from a computer, that has the English language as a default, my website may come as a first one in the rank. But, when you have Polish set up (which is my primary audience), the website comes in 5th or 6th.
The problem is, Google doesn't recognize, that my website has two languages available at /pl and /en, even though my sitemap states that clearly.
How do you tell Google, that one's website is available in multiple languages:
Polish at /pl,
English at /en,
(and German at /de).
The sitemap is available and recognized by Google (I have successfully uploaded it to Google Search Console).
Regardless, no matter if you use Polish or English browser, browse from Poland or anywhere in the world, Google always points to example.com, which is in English by default.
I shall add the website is up and running for several months (and several weeks after major changes). It has been already indexed by Google (verified in Search Console) and all pages recognized (but not respected) via a submitted sitemap.
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I would highly recommend to implement hreflang meta tags to define the areas or more specifically alternative pages in different language.
Hreflang even support targeting users who speaks a certain language with a content in a different language.
In your case you should tag your pages in all the different versions with these very same three tags
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/pl/" hreflang="pl" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/en/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/de/" hreflang="de" />
All three independent of the region but targeting users who speaks pl, en and de.
Just confirm the language codes here.
Another advise that I will give you is not to translate the content using automated tools, make a real effort not just to translate the content but also to use specific language slangs (if appropriate).
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