Duplicate Page Title for multilingual wordpress site

[tevag]

Hello all,

I have received my first crawl reports and I find a lot of errors of duplicate page title.

In the wordpress site I use the qtranslate plugin in order to have the site in 2 languages.

I also use the Yoast SEO plugin in order to put titles, description and keywords to each web page.

By looking deeply in the duplicate page title errors I think I found that the problem is that every web page takes the same SEO Title for each language. But I am not 100% sure.

I tried to use some shortcodes of the qtranslate plugin like the following

ABOUT

[:en]About

in order to indicate and give different titles per language for one web page but that doesn't seem to work.

Does anybody here has experienced the same problem as me?

Do you have any suggestions about how to ressolve the problem of the duplicate page title?

I can give you the URL of the website if you need it to have a look.

Thank you in advanced for your help. I really appreciate that.

Regards,

Lenia

[tevag]

I understand.

Thank you very much for your help and answers.

I really appreciate that.

Lenia

[Keszi]

Hi again,

I use the SEO plugin for Wordpress by Yoast.

The problem with qTranslate is that in the backend you have 1 post, with 1 Title where you will have EnglishTitleGermanTitle but somehow it doesn't do the job well.

Istvan

[tevag]

Hi Istvan,

Thank you. You help me a lot.

Ok I see how you managed to put different SEO titles / page / language.

I tried to do that with qtranslate by using the following short code but it doesn't work.

ABOUT

[:en]About

Could you please let me know, if that is ok for you, which SEO plugin did you use?

Thank you very much one more time.

Regards,

Lenia

[Keszi]

Hi Lenia,

With qTranslate my biggest issue was the URL system for each page, which was the same indifferent by language (and since our clients website hosts 3 languages it was kind of odd to have a non-describing URL system).

Another back stab from qTranslate was that each post "hosted" every language version, but WPML gave me the possibility to work with every language on as a different post -> Different Title, Different URL, Different Meta tags.

This is why I have chosen to use WPML (although you have to buy it, but it does worth it).

I hope this helped,

Istvan

[tevag]

Hi Istvan,

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Could you please let me know what exactly have you done with WPML to resolve the issue and that it wasn't possible to do with qstraslate?

Do you believe it is a matter of plugin or theme?

I am not sure but I have used once a theme that permitted me to put different SEO title for each language.

I try to understand better what is the source of the problem.

Thank you anyway for your help.

Lenia

[Keszi]

Hi Lenia,

I had the same issue as you have. Then I have changed the qTranslate plugin to WPML, which kind of resolved the issue for me.

Istvan