E-commerce store having same content different language pages

[MozAddict]

Hello,

I have an e-commerce store operating on PrestaShop. I have four languages Fr, De, En and Nl. The url for each page changes like

1. Example.com/en/product1
2. Example.com/fr/Product1
3. Example.com/de/product1
4. Example.com/nl/Product1

All these pages have same content about product1 but translated in respective language. Is it considered as duplicate content? Should I suppose to write different content for each page?

[Devanur-Rafi]

Yes my friend, you should not use language translators for the purpose as these translators do a literal translation and mess up the grammar of the language. You can take help of a writer for the corresponding language and have the translation done. Please remember, bad spelling and grammar lead to bad user experience and search engines will not favor websites with bad spellings and grammar.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.

[MozAddict]

The video says I have rewrite it by hand, I cannot use language translator like Googletranslate and copy English text convert the text into other language and paste it in the website. That will be considered as spam because translator never translate it 100% some idiom problem remain there so better to block it by robots.txt if you have auto generated it.

My question is if block my other language URLs this is obvious that my other page wont appear in ranking against the other local languages. Like if someone opens my site from Germany than he wont be able to site in German language because only English pages will be ranking in serps.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi Usama,

Google will not penalize for duplicate content in this case as it would treat the content unique. So, you don't need to worry in this regard.

Here you go for a video from Matt Cutts of Google on this topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDg2AGRGjLQ&feature=player_embedded

Hope it helps.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.