Duplicate content in different languages.

**NickTyler81** · 05-11-2011, 10:12 AM

Hi

I was just wondering what you guys thought about this:

A site goes through a rebrand (or something) and a PR or article is written about it and published. If the brand is multi national and the article is translated pretty much word for word into say... German, and then published on another German site would this be considered duplicate content??

Thanks

**d marks** · 05-11-2011, 10:23 AM

I dont think this is an issue that would hurt your rankings, unless its being done to try and spam tons of links as the language/content would be filtered thru googles various country code pages, imo

**Tiggerito** · 05-11-2011, 11:36 AM

Google is happy with this as long as it's not an automated translation. I'm guessing that means Google may pick up on it if you use Google Translate to do it.

There are ways to mark up pages to indicate the language and that there are translations:

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="es-MX" xml:lang="es-MX">
<head>
<link rel=”alternate” hreflang="es" href="http://www.website.com/es/the-page" />
<link rel=”alternate” hreflang="ru" href="http://www.website.com/ru/the-page" />

**SnerdeyWebs** · 05-11-2011, 04:29 PM

Something comes to mind here real quick. The links within the article will be the same results as in they are pointing to the same website in any of the articles

**rafaelmontilla** · 05-11-2011, 04:56 PM

Different languages, different content.

**Stardust** · 05-12-2011, 06:01 AM

i guess that if you got the same text in different languages means that you are providing the same content for different audiences..

**NickTyler81** · 05-12-2011, 07:48 AM

i Snerdywebs

They will not be pointing to the same website the Englist PR woudl be pointing to the .co.uk site and the German PR woud point to the .de site

**NickTyler81** · 05-12-2011, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by Alina Tru

Yeah, Google will be catch it. And punish you for this spamming work. Please do not try this for seo working.

I'm not sure how this is spamming work. Can you explain why? It is one real PR in Two different languages targeted at two different audiences for two different websites intwo different territories. Just would the content be considered duplicate as it essentially says the same thing?

**Clarrie** · 05-12-2011, 12:21 PM

Don't think you'd have a problem with the German version being seen as a duplicate of the English.

Doubly so if it was a proper translation rather than an automated one - auto translation is rarely ideomatically correct, so the translated version would probably be different enough to be doubly sure.

Of course, if it were then published on 10 German sites there'd be a a duplicate content issue there, but that's the same with any press release in English as well.

**C.Rebecca** · 05-12-2011, 12:28 PM

Matt Cuts on language spamming:
“Having content from two different domains isn’t risky if they are in different languages, but if you have the exact same content on two different domains, it’s better to use a permanent redirect from the duplicate domains to a single preferred domain.”

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