No english Url = No sense symbols?
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Hey there,
i have a greek content website and some of the urls are greek (I did this for better SEO score).
When i am using the analyze page issues and write down the greek url it doesnt find it (for example if i wrote down "www.euroulakia.com/πως-να-βγαλω-λεφτα" it displays me back "Sorry! We weren't able to find that page when we crawled your site")BUT when i just copy paste it from the url the moz finds it. However when i copy-paste the url changes the greek characters to no-sense symbols (for example the same above url becomes : http://www.euroulakia.com/πως-να-βγαλω-λεφτα)
As you can see the url is written with non-sense symbols..
My question is if google see this no-sense symbol as well instead of the greek characters?
I am using Joomla and i have:
Search Engine Friendly URLs and Unicode Aliases setting to yes.
Can anyone please help me with this because i have a feeling that something is wrong here.
Thanks in advance
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thanks for answer
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Hi,
Nothing is wrong. The non-ASCII url is translated to ASCII - the non-sense symbols you see are the translated symbols (you could test that yourself here:http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp.
As Moz works with the "translated" version - it will not find the original version - but it will find the ASCII version. Google is perfectly able to handle these "international url's"
That said, Moz is not really best in class for foreign languages with a lot of symbols and accents - these foreign characters render the page grade report virually useless (see also this quesion: http://moz.com/community/q/foreign-language-character-sets-in-page-grade-reports
rgds,
Dirk
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