Google search results /en instead of regular url how to fix?

Hello @startechmarketing,

Thank you for contacting the support.

Please note that the preferred language set in the translation plugin doesn’t really affect the ranking of your site in the SERPs. It is completely up to Google which language they find more helpful for the search term and will rank the results accordingly.

We have a dedicated article on how to do multilingual SEO using WPML and Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/multilingual-seo-wpml/

Please check it and optimize your site and wait for Google to start ranking your desired language for the search term.

Hope that helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.

Thanks for your help. WMPL showed me if someone searches from Google.de it comes up correct, that is after I made some minor adjustments the other day and resubmitted to Google. In step 4 of your article, I did not understand why I would need to translate them, but I did try one of them. Not sure if I need to do anymore or anything with step 5 as my titles in the posts are already translated. The sitemap includes both German and English. Section 11.1 is a bit confusing, I am not sure if I need to do anything here. In custom fields there is no custom field rank_math_title so I am confused how to fix this. Normally you choose Translate not copy once – ok then after I could only change one of the custom fields do I need to do anything else? https://ibb.co/ph50pg7

Hello @startechmarketing,

We can check that the title of your site is not getting translated as it is using the same site name for both English and German versions. Please check with the WPML support about the missing rank_math_title field as they will be in a better position to help you with this.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to your update.

ok I will contact them

thanks