: Multilingual site and Google search I have a multilingual site with only one domain www.mydomain.com, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server
I have a multilingual site with only one domain mydomain.com, this domain serves content in English and Norwegian. And language is handled using a server side session parameter, which is triggered by a click on a button on my website.
My problem is that Google only find and index my English version of the website, and not the Norwegian part of it.
After looking for a solution I came over this post on Google: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192
From what I read there, it looks like I can't use sessions to control language, and that I should use one of these solutions:
en.domain.com - no.domain.com domain.com/en - domain.com/no www.domain.com - domain.no
Is this true, or is it possible to get Google to index my Norwegian and English content by using my session parameter?
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Try to insert this in to the Norwegian site's header :
<meta name="language" content="norwegian">
metatags.info
or
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="no">
seoconsultants.com
I would do both. Just in case. and Put the English one in to...
You need to give the translated versions separate URLs if you want Google to index them. From Google's "Working with multilingual websites" blog post:
To make all of your site's content more crawlable, avoid automatic
redirections based on the user's perceived language. These
redirections could prevent users (and search engines) from viewing all
the versions of your site.
And last but not least, keep the content for each language on separate
URLs - don't use cookies [or sessions] to show translated versions.
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