Why don't our English versions show up first?
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If I google "greatfire" I find the Chinese version of our website (zh.greatfire.org) before the English version (en.greatfire.org). This is not on the Chinese-language version of Google. Why is this? Our site even has a language indicator () and also hints of where the English version is ().
The same thing happens if I google "freeweibo". I find https://freeweibo.com but not https://freeweibo.com/en/, even though we indicate that's the English version ().
Any ideas?
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I have look into few sites. For example: I have just apple.com, which is doing good in all country Like from UK you will get apple.com/uk/ page and from India you will get apple.com/in/.
I am not sure, but I think its happening because by default site is redirecting to https://zh.greatfire.org/ means when I open greatfire.org I redirected to https://zh.greatfire.org/ .
I am not sure regarding it....
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You are right mate:
Let me finish below post on "international seo" by Gianluca. Hope I will get something related to your problem. Here is the URL:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-dropping-the-information-dust
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According to https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077 :
Update the HTML of each URL in the set by adding a set of
rel="alternate" hreflang="x"link elements. Include arel="alternate" hreflang="x"link for every URL in the set, like this:So your recommendation seems to contradict what Google instructs.
Other ideas?
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Hi,
I find both tags in your en.greatfire.org ( English version) source page:
**<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en</a>" href="[https://en.greatfire.org](view-source:https://en.greatfire.org/)" /> <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">zh-hans</a>" href="[https://zh.greatfire.org](view-source:https://zh.greatfire.org/)" />**Can you remove Chinese version(second one) from source. Same thing in Chinese version, remove english version tag. Hope this works for you...
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