How will google respond to allowing multilingual search terms for a single language website?
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We would like to set up a website in English language only and promote this in various European countries. As said the website will only be available in English language, but we will keep translations (google translate) in backend. When a user in France then enters search query in French language in browser, a search can be done in French content, but we will present relevant content in English. Does anyone have any experience with that? Will it be allowed given the fact that the result (in English language) will probably not include any of the terms that was searched on (in French language).
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It depends upon which service you're using to translate.
And after translate, the URL's remains the same or it changes.
If it changes then it will be discovered by Google. -
this is very useful
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I'm also interested in this topic because im using wordpress right now and i use polylang for all my translations and till now haven't had any problems with google
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