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So your suggestion is to use something like this:

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt-br">and the expression br-PT constructed the first part with the website language and geodetecting the second part of the string (the PT)?</meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt-br">

But I don't have two websites for portuguese. I have one.

Same happens with German. It is not only speaked in Germany, Austria also has a big part of the country speaking German.

I can't translate my website into all different countries and language variations. I already have more than 10 so I can tell that is hard to maintain

Basically what sounds contradictory to me is that I'm not using a country approach but a language approach like many websites. But still Google is getting confused with it.

Thanks for the answer.

Of what you suggested, I have canonicals and content language meta tag.

I haven't tried the yet. Maybe that helps.

I have sitemaps too.

The problem I see with geotargeting with WM is what I mentioned above. Portugal and Brazil share the same language: portuguese. But in webmaster tools I can't say pt.domain.com is intented for Brzil and Portugal. I need to pick only one.

Exactly that's the issue. For example I go to google.com.mx and I see my domain spanish domain with sitelinks pointing to my dutch domain!

The problem I see with geotargeting with WM is what I mentioned above. Portugal and Brazil share the same language: portuguese. But in webmaster tools I can't say pt.domain.com is intented for Brzil and Portugal. I need to pick only one.

Maybe the mobile in particular is a bad example because you are right, I can restrict access to it. But It's happening with the site in other languages too.

I have this on all my pages:

http-equiv="Content-Language" content="nl" /> or this http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de" />

that's why I'm clueless

The problem I see with geo targeting through webmasters tool is that I can pick a country and not a language.

For example I have a portuguese version for Brzil and Portugal. I know this is not the best approach cause both languages has its differences, but I can say this website is for Portugal OR Brazil. Not for poruguese speaking countries.

I don't want Google not to crawl the website. I want to set this up properly so he sees that they are different

Hi!

I'm experiencing something that's kind of strange for me.

I have my main domain let's say: www.domain.com. Then I have my mobile version in a subdomain: mobile.domain.com and I also have a german version of the website de.domain.com.

When I Google my domain I have the main result linking to: www.domain.com but then Google mixes all the domains in the sites links.

For example a Sing in may be linking mobile.domain.com, a How it works link may be pointing to de.domain.com, etc

What's the solution? I think this is hurting a lot my position cause google sees that all are the same domain when clearly is not.

thanks!!

awesome! really help. thanks

Maybe the mobile in particular is a bad example because you are right, I can restrict access to it. But It's happening with the site in other languages too.

Thanks for the answer.

Of what you suggested, I have canonicals and content language meta tag.

I haven't tried the yet. Maybe that helps.

I have sitemaps too.

The problem I see with geotargeting with WM is what I mentioned above. Portugal and Brazil share the same language: portuguese. But in webmaster tools I can't say pt.domain.com is intented for Brzil and Portugal. I need to pick only one.