Are you confused about showing multiple languages on your website? Not sure if you need to specify a primary language on a multilingual page? On this episode of #AskGooglebot, John Mueller covers best practices for multilingual pages.
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I can’t get out of this page. How do I get out 1:19
The person in the video used the word meta tags in the video, is meta tag still relevant? one of the google search central videos shows search engines are not using meta tags anymore. Please someone help me out!! TIA
linking specific pages from blog content by anchor text helps in ranking???? for that keyword?
There are also legal implications of having multiple languages in your website. For instance, if you include European language versions of an ecommerce website, any EU legal court might interpret that you're targeting European customers and, as such, you're bound by Europe's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), should any European citizen file a lawsuit against you at an European court. And, since most countries have legal agreements with Europe, you probably WILL be legally bound, even in you own country's jurisdiction. Just like GDPR, many other countries have similar legislation that might bind you, even if you're not even aware of their existence!
Damn it even John Mueller is creating Unhelpful content for people.
The fact that you simply didn't answer the question
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No mention of hreflang. Fear.
Thanks for the valuable input sir.
Why did you delete my comment about the google web stories plugin been broken for over 1 year?? How am I suppose to try and get it fixed when everyone is ignoring me? Does the fact that it has been broken for 1 year have any impact on my SEO. I have not posted the link to github ticket that shows its been broken for 1 year as maybe that is why you keep on deleting my comments????
What about WordPress plugins that translate content when requested? Do those impact search because the content for the other language may be in the code? (not sure how they work that way)
Ran into fun times trying to build a multilingual language on WordPress. Beware, they only translate one directional so while you can change the site language, this doesn't effect any translation plugins I tested. The 'first' language must be created at the start so to build a website for say an italian who wants to maintain it in Italian, then italian needs to be set as the default language at the start.
None of the support people were aware of this because you can change the default language and they told me that it would just lose existing translations but Google no longer recognised it as Italian (and offer to translate). Made me realise this is why I have found italian websites, partly converting. By changing the default language to Italian from English at a later stage meant new text added after this point would not get translated if that makes sense?
Google saw the Italian as English because of the settings in the backend and no way to change them. I was told it was that way by design. So I assume in this case, it would negatively effect SEO?
Might help someone else and save them the hours I lost trying to figure it out plus having to rebuild the whole thing in Italian from scratch.