Ranking Multi-Language Site
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Recently we updated our website to a new version. Our website has a structure in which the English page is our main page with about 50 subpages. All these pages are translated in 5 different languages. The different languages are divided into folders. For example www.ourdomain.com/de containts all german pages. The pages with products would be for example: www.ourdomain.com/products for english and www.ourdomain.com/de/produkte for the german page. On our previous website this used to be simililar.
After the website update the SEOMoz crawls are showning duplicated page content/title errors for the pages saying that the pages in other languages have the same content/title as the basis English webpage.
Any idea how I can solve these errors?
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Actually this is the case. The content is the same but it is translated to different languages. The problem is that my crawl report is saying it is double content and it seems that Google is penalizing me for it.
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this part refers to the same content being on the site but being translated in different languages, then you dont need to worry about the content being marked as duplicate. Hope this helps.
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Thanks SEO5!
I've read the blog and read the following:
"Also, keep in mind that this is not required when using different languages. Google does not consider foreign language translations to be duplicate content."
All the pages are translated in a different language so I am not sure whether this would be the solution. Would you think it should solve the issue?
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Using the canonical element can help you fix this. More info in this article
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