The same URL, but different content depending of the language

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The same URL, but different content depending of the language

gcan

8:01 pm on Apr 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have a multilanguage website (3 languages). Language is being controlled by a cookie. This causes situation that the same URL displays different content depending of the language.

For example:

[mysite.com...]

will display:
content in Spanish
content in English
content in German

It's not a problem for me, but I need to know if it's OK for search engines.

Can I leave it as is it, or it's necessary to create different URLs for all languages:
[mysite.com...]
[mysite.com...]
[mysite.com...]

Thanks

g1smd

8:55 pm on Apr 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

If you need all three languages to be indexed then you need three different URLs.

For users that can't accept the cookie, this is a prime candidate application to simply append the language code as a parameter.