: How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page? Several of my site's pages are appearing in search results with [Translate this page] next to it. When I click that it takes

@Angie530

use this meta to skip the Google's translate

<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />

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@Odierno851

Google does not use language meta-data since we've found that it's generally incorrect. Using HTTP headers, HTML meta tags or element-level lang-attributes does not have an impact on Google's language recognition, so unless you want to do that for other purposes (eg screen-readers), you can probably skip on that.

One thing to keep in mind is that Google has no problem recognizing multiple languages per page. So even if we should recognize that a part of the page is say in Italian (perhaps when you write about Italian hotels), and we show a "translate this page" link in the search results, we'll probably still be able to recognize that it's mostly in English. A simple way to check that is to use the advanced search options to select a specific language and do a site:-query for your site.

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@Reiling115

You may be able to look at the request Accept-Language header to dynamically add/remove the class="notranslate" attribute when the language string includes en.

According to Web Master World you can apply class="notranslate" to only the content it affects (i.e. the 'couple of foreign words') and hopefully avoid the English/English translate box.

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@Moriarity557

You should add the meta tag

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" />


You could also send the Content-Language HTTP header from the server if you have access to it.

More info at www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-http-and-lang

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