Are meta descriptions translated?

  • Resolved fixy808

    (@fixy808)


    4 years ago

    Hi there, thanks for this awesome plugin. Curious, my blog uses GTranslate because i hope for an international audience. Does the SEO auto-translate the meta descriptions? Will the site metadescription allow the site to appear in international searches? thank you

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    GTranslate, simply put, adds a link to Google Translate that helps translate your website’s pages automatically. This has zero value for SEO: search engines will never consider those translated pages (rendering the inquiry about descriptions moot).

    If you want to prove any significance in ranking for other languages, then you’ll have to put in the hours translating your pages manually and providing different endpoints (URLs). You can achieve this on simple websites easily with plugins like WPML and Polylang — note, however, that those plugins will become nuisant baggage you’ll have to drag along.

    To learn more, see https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/managing-multi-regional-sites.

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