Mixing up languages on the same page + possible duplicate content
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I have a site in English hosted under .com with English info, and then different versions of the site under subdirectories (/de/, /es/, etc.) Due to budget constraints we have only managed to translate the most important info of our product pages for the local domains. We feel however that displaying (on a clearly identified tab) the detailed product info in English may be of use for many users that can actually understand English, and may help us get more conversions to have that info. The problem is that this detailed product info is already used on the equivalent English page as well. This basically means 2 things:
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We are mixing languages on pages
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We have around 50% of duplicate content of these pages
What do you think that the SEO implications of this are? By the way, proper Meta Titles and Meta Descriptions as well as implementation of href lang tag are in place.
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Thanks a million for your answer. Very helpful, indeed. Best, Laura
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Hi Laura,
As long as you have HREFLANG in place, this will prevent duplication issues in Google's eyes. This is more about explaining to Google that there is a page here that is the same as one intended for another country, but might be some information specific to that country.
What I can't tell you (because I haven't come across it before) is if a mix of English and another language this cause any SEO issues. My gut feeling is that it shouldn't because you are serving up a regional URL, which doesn't rely just on the language - you could just have a different cost or something else that is different.
-Andy
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