Multilanguage, SEO and multi-URL

  • Jeroenla

    (@jeroenla)


    8 years ago

    Greetings everyone,

    I am thinking about making a website multi-language. But when I do, I’d like more URL’s to point to the main site.

    So site.de would point to the german version, site.fr to the french, site.nl to Dutch, site.com to English and so forth.

    The question I have, though, is what this would mean to my google ratings? Would any link to site.fr add value to site.com (with .fr linking to .com)? Or will SEO-value be lost?

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  • a2hostingrj

    (@a2hostingrj)

    The question I have, though, is what this would mean to my google ratings? Would any link to site.fr add value to site.com (with .fr linking to .com)? Or will SEO-value be lost?

    The one I used in the past for previous projects is WPML plugin, which is SEO friendly.

    https://wpml.org/2013/07/how-to-do-multilingual-seo-for-wordpress-sites/

    Other plugins I tried translate using Javascript, kinda like Google Translate, and the versions of your site in another language using those plugins don’t add SEO value.

    Thread Starter Jeroenla

    (@jeroenla)

    That plugin sure does look interesting, and I will definately look into it. It does not, however, answer the underlying question regarding the “mechanics” of SEO (basically, I’d like to get a glance of what’s under the hood of that plugin; how does it work, which challenges does it tackle, where do these challenges come from).

    a2hostingrj

    (@a2hostingrj)

    As I understand, the plugin “generates” a link in another language that spiders can crawl. Ask the developer for more information about how it works.

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