Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools

If you are targeting users in more than one country, chances are you already heard about rel-alternate-hreflang . If you haven't, in short, this a…

Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users

If you are doing business in more than one country or targeting different languages, we recommend having separate sites or sections with specific co…

6 Quick Tips for International Websites

Note from the editors: After previously looking into various ways to handle internationalization for Google’s web-search , here’s a post from Google W…

Introducing x-default hreflang for international landing pages

Webmaster Level: All The homepages of multinational and multilingual websites are sometimes configured to point visitors to localized pages, either vi…

Now you can polish up Google’s translation of your website

Webmaster level: All (Cross-posted on the Google Translate Blog ) Since we first launched the Website Translator plugin back in September 2009, mo…

Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps

Webmaster level: All In December 2011 we announced annotations for sites that target users in many languages and, optionally, countries. These annot…

New markup for multilingual content

Many websites serve users from around the world. There are different approaches to serving content appropriate to your users' language and/or re…

New markup for multilingual content

Many websites serve users from around the world. There are different approaches to serving content appropriate to your users' language and/or re…

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Webmaster level: Intermediate So you’re going global, and you need your website to follow. Should be a simple case of getting the text translated an…

Unifying content under multilingual templates

Webmaster Level: Advanced Warning: This specific configuration of rel-alternate-hreflang markup has been replaced by the general guidelines for multil…

Working with multilingual websites

Webmaster Level: Intermediate A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites m…

Working with multi-regional websites

Webmaster Level: Intermediate Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important th…

Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally

(This has been cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) How long would it take to translate all the world's web content into 50 languages? Even…

Watch out for your .yu domain!

Are you the owner of a .yu domain ? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30, all .yu domains will stop working , regardless of their re…

Better targeting your indic language site

A lot has been said about how to start a multi-lingual site and how to better target content through meta tags . Our users have raised a number of in…

Helping you break the language barrier

When webmasters put content out on the web it's there for the world to see. Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in a single…