Google covers best practices for expanding your site to new languages or country-based language variations. We discuss use cases of international sites, implementation of rel=”alternate” hreflang, and best practices.
Webmaster Help Center article on rel=”alternate” hreflang and hreflang=”x-default”:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077
Working with multilingual sites:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multilingual-websites.html
Working with multiregional sites:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html
New markup for multilingual content:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html
Introducing “x-default hreflang” for international landing pages:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html
Webmaster discussion forum FAQ on internationalization:
https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-internationalisation
Webmaster discussion forum for internationalization:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/webmasters/internationalization
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God bless you, this really helped me a lot… so many published post online misleading but with this I think am Good to Go…
Hey. I have questions. I have website in 3 languages – Latvian, Russian and English. When I am searching my brand in google "Cityfinances" in my country Latvia, 1st result shows up is in English. What should I do to make that website shows up in Latvian?
So the language preferences can be specified as a subdomain in the URL? I thought it was reserved for only specifying countries.
Hi Maile. Thanks for your exellent videos. I have a website in 4 languages, It's: http://www.loginbrands.com . Is it necessary for my website to have hreflang for all hyperlink in all pages of my website or not? or hreflang is enough for just main links to subdirectories (to 4 home pages only)?
well explained
I don't agree with Google's point of view. The accept-language header should be used to display the right language and there should not be ugly things in the URL like /fr/ or /en-US/.
Hi Maile or Someone else, Can you update this content in the world we live in today, 4/10/2020?
Now my question is : is it better to use the subdomain or the path strategy to differentiate my URLs ?
how to do these in new google sites?
Great job, no spin, no drama, just practical advice 🙂
I use a ccTLD for my website and I want to use it as a gTLD.
Will Google punish me for using a ccTLD instead of a gTLD (e.g. .com) for a multicountry AND multilang site?
The URL structure I'm aiming for looks like this (examples):
mysite.it/ca/en => Italian TLD, Region/Country Canada, Language English
mysite.it/ca/fr => Italian TLD, Region/Country Canada, Language French
mysite.it/de => Italian TLD, Region/Country Germany, Language German
mysite.it/es => Italian TLD, Region/Country Spain, Language Spannish
That makes sense for different language, but what about English US and GB? I thought that duplicate content was a big no no… If we have http://www.example.com and http://www.example.co.uk having the same content and add the proper hreflang on each page of each website, does it mean that Google would actually understand that the .co.uk site has been created for UK visitors and the .com for the US (and therefore "accept" that the content is duplicated?)
Something is not clear. If you have a bunch of pages: home-en-us.html, home-en-ca.html, home-en-au.html, home-en-nz.html, home-en-gb.html… etc… and if all of them have link="alternate"… Google will choose one canonical URL from all of the, right? Yes, because the contents in all of them are 95% similar, just change little amount of words, right? Google read them as "same" content, for Google all of them are same. Is it like that? In your example you gave link="alternate" to all of the, why you didn't give ONE canonical to any of them?
So well explained! Thank you!
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Try saying "rel alternate href lang" 5 times fast
It does No Longer Wonder me, why Google is such a screwed up search engine.
Uh, wait, it isn't an SE for a long time already, just a dictating business tyrant.
Time for some other smart kids to come up with a SE, I mean "Search Engine".
Screw you, Google!
I have question. In which language my brand will appear? If I set-up hreflang in Latvian, but I am using brower in English, and I am searching my brand in Latvia.
so is the translation automatic or not?
you are amazing please start new video tut to help us in the Future
Good Jobs.Thanks for your help
This is for people who write html….boring…I have 1500 page sites for art and just use auto translate…
i keep getting this error in my webmaster tool international targetting its called no retun tags (for all languages) on all my languages basically i want all english speakers over the world to see my website can anyone help me please website is www. eliquidsnow. com
Good lesson, But the Arabic subtitles in this video is too bad
Thanks for the lesson ^^