Duplicate URLs in Search Console

Same issue here, you would think that it would be impossible because the content is the same but in another language with is also in the URL. If you found a solution please let me know I will do the same, good luck.

Hello,

TranslatePress doesn’t set the canonical at all.

While we are following Google’s guidelines for multilingual websites there’s not much we can do if you don’t have all of the content translated.

However, we’re clearly defining the language and offer the alternative languages in the HTML, so google should know these are not duplicate content pages, but translated versions.

However, the main problem is the fact that you haven’t used our SEO Addon, meaning the title tag and slug aren’t translated. https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-editor/#translate-seo-elements.

With the best wishes,

Hello,

All of the content is translated, I have used DeepL API to translate it (and paid around 500€ to get it translated). And yes, I’m using the SEO addon and the slug is translated as well. So none of those are the issue here.

Also I’ve changed the SEO plugin since you are only compatible with Yoast (and not RankMath, which is what I used till now). That didn’t help either.

The integration with TranslatePress was to gain more user traction. As it’s working right now (at least for me, and I see I’m not the only one) it’s completely useless as it’s doing quite the oposite. I have lost a ton of visits because of this.

The issue is that Google is scanning the pages in english, and is seeing the page first in english. Therefore the info it gets from the code is:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.siteurl.com/en/&#8221; />

And then the language options.

<link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”es-ES” href=”https://www.siteurl.com/blog/”/&gt;
<link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”en-US” href=”https://www.siteurl.com/en/blog/”/&gt;

I know Google’s guidelines are like that, but I don’t know why other multilingual pages are working fine in SERP results and mine is not. And as I’ve said, I’m not the only one reporting this on this (here or in another thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/search-engine-results-is-not-showing-in-my-default-language/)

So it doesn’t matter that I tell TranslatePress that my primary language is spanish, because the info is passing Google is the canonical and main URL is the english one, and the spanish version is just a duplicate. And if I perform a search in Google in spanish I can see my SERP results in english, hence the users are not clicking on it.

I have several websites with TranslatePress installed, all different results with the same settings. What i want to note is that google takes a long time to figure out a site with multiple languages. Time is a factor, it takes at least for me, more than a month to get the results you are looking for. I uploaded sitemaps, for each language one and so on.I use Deepl as well.

@nieuwesigaret what are you using to upload sitemaps in different language? Yoast?

screaming frog

I named them, sitemap_de.xml and so on.

Thanks, I could give it a try, although it’s one more thing to do after every post written.

What also works is index request in search console, but if you have a large number of pages to be indexed it is not an option because it takes forever. You can however bulk upload pages to google, you have to request this option in google developer I think.

Yes, I do the index request in search console for new posts, but after a while it gives me issues with the canonical URL as well

Hello,

If you need further help with your issue you could open a ticket on our Support page:https://translatepress.com/support/open-ticket/

We are not allowed to offer support regarding the paid version of our plugin on this forum.

With the best wishes,