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…