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  1. 01-23-2007, 10:02 AM #1
    Crispin Glover
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    Google keeps trying to translate my English pages to English

    Hi, 1st time post here - My english language travel site had been acheiving top ten rankings for years for many location specific keywords e.g Spain Holiday Deals. Then about 3 months ago i started to notice our rankings drop but only for non english speaking countries

    Google had started to show a "translate this page" option beside our listings. So it would offer to translate our English language page about Spain from Spanish to English - which of course makes no sense as the page is NOT in spanish

    I assumed this had something to do with our drop in rankings so added the tag <HTML lang="en">, language meta tag and charset value to each page so google would read the pages in english and not try and translate them.

    3 months on and Google still shows the "translate this page" option and our rankings continue to drop

    any ideas on what i could i do to get google to stop trying to translate the pages and realise they are in ENGLISH?
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  2. 01-23-2007, 12:16 PM #2
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    Nothing surprising, Google makes a a lot of stupid things, at least this one does not destroy anything.
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  3. 01-23-2007, 05:01 PM #3
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    You might try posting in the comments of Matt Cutts' blog. This is the kind of thing that he really does try to get to the bottom of via his Google compadres. His most recent post is here:

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    It's worth a shot. I would also drop a line to google:

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  4. 01-23-2007, 05:17 PM #4
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    Could you provide a link to the site, Crispin? I'd like to take a look at it. Wouldn't hurt.
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