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I got some difficult questions – maybe someone can help
It´s regarding this site – <snip>
On the index we use a little php 302 to redirect the user to the right language.
Do you think this is “bad” for google , are there better solutions for checking the language?
One Problem we have with that is that we just get listed in English search results – because the google bot get redirected to the English versions..
Next thing is that we use the same url (re/write) for English and German Version
So the url is exactly the same for English and German Version .
( Example /store/bindings-c-25.html same URL for both languages)
I know this is bad – I think we should ad a extra letter to the URL for each language like
store/bindings-c-25-engl.html - Do you think this would work, and if it works , can it be bad for us because if we do that, we will have 1000 new pages in German in one day..
I hope you can understand my English
thx
[edited by: encyclo at 5:28 pm (utc) on Dec. 15, 2006]
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If you want to be recognized for local content on Google, then they've told us you should either host locally or use a ccTLD. That doesn't work for all languages, but it's a start for most of them. You could also set the language of the page like so:
Chinese:
<html lang="zh"> Japanese:
<html lang="ja"> etc.