Re: SEO-ing a Multilingual site
I have just inherited a site which is currently 2 languages, with language tags correctly set. However, each URL has two sets of content, one in each language - that is, the URL is identical for both languages.
At the moment, the only language in Google appears to be English - the other language is reached via a 'choose language' drop down, and isn't in the sitemap, so I think that Google would have difficulty reading it.
I guess that we need a different URL or subdomain for the second language - I think that if we start telling SEs about the same URL in the second language, it will cause confusion.
I assume from the previous posts that this is what other people think as well. But what would be the effect of leaving it as it is? I would guess that it would reduce the English language visibility because of SE confusion.
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