Creating a .cn site with the existing site content
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Hi all,
I'm planning to create a .cn site. If I simply translate the existing content on my site (.com.au) into Chinese, do you think Google will see the .cn site as a duplicate of the main site? Will this cause any duplicate content issues?
Thanks
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Hi Thomas,
Thank you very much for all your help! It was really helpful.
Rachel
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Hi Rachel,
Glad the resources were helpful, re-reading my response, I did forget to add that you can also specify your target here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en
Best of luck with the multilingual site, anymore questions please do ask.
Tom
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Hi Thomas,
My name is Rachel, sorry I didn't realise that I was posting with my boss' name.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question and thanks for sharing the resources with me as well.
It will be a professional human translator doing the work. We had a sample page translated and based on my Chinese colleague's feedback, the quality of translation seems to be really good.
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Hi Andrew,
You can use the hreflang tag, this will tell Google that this is your site in a different language. Useful post for you here: https://hreflang.org/what-is-hreflang-a-primer/
My biggest question though, is how you are translating, will it be human translation or machine translation? See: http://searchengineland.com/how-machine-translation-has-a-habit-of-mangling-multilingual-seo-91759 for a bit more detail.
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