Multilingual websites
| How to get the language of your site recognized by Search Engines? |
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The best solution is to have the name of the country on your domestic domain using a specific language, for example: - www.website.co.uk (for UK); However, in some European countries, you can’t buy a domain name if you don’t have a company in this country (E.g. France). If you don't own your domain name extension for a country, we advise you to create sub-domains in relation to the language: e.g: www.website.com/fr Subdomain denomination by language: - fr = French There are some additional codes you can apply to be sure that the search engines recognized the language used in your site: - Add at the beginning of each page: <html lang="es"> o <html lang=”fr”> o <html lang=”en”> o <html lang=”de”> (recommended by Matt’s Cutts). - Add on each page the Meta Tag: <meta tag lang=fr>… |
