This is about duplicate copy.... if I create copy for one of my sites in English and then translate into Spanish and French and German and put it under the appropriate language section, does google see this as duplicate content?, is that little bit if kit that clever?
I would be massively disappointed with any search engine that applied a duplicate content "penalty" against foreign language translations of content.
If you genuinely want to do something in the interests of your users then it is extremely unlikely that it will be viewed in any bad light by search engines, which is of course the corollary of SPAM which is basically defined by having to ask the question "is this spam?".
Cheers for this... I was hoping google would not see this as duplication.
Ok the next question I have then....if my site is indexed for the UK pages, what will it do to for example re spanish pages, does google send the spanish equiv, does it reconise spanish? How will it can it distinguish?
This is only a guess, but if you use the lang attribute in your head section http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/stru...html#adef-lang and the hreflang attribute in your links to the page, I would assume that it should tell the bot what it needs to know.
It's basic html coding so it shouldn't choke anything.
Not a chance, google might be clever, but they are not that clever. Also even if they were they would need a data center the size of the moon by modern standards to be able to calculate and index everything if it took into account translations.
Google doesnt recognise spanish, nor does it recognise anything, it collects keywords based on the page content. When a user searches for something they generally search in the language that they want to get results for. Now if you take a spanish search query then only pages with that query are shown... ala not needing to know what language it is.
However, some localised issues do make a difference. For example, if the person searching is on google.es and the pages that have the desired keywords in it are also from .es then of course they will rank higher than a .co.uk with the spanish query. As well as that the localised ip range of the sites server will make a difference over two .es sites with the same content scoring. The one with the spanish range will win.
So jess, if you want to add spanish pages they will be indexed and if anyone is looking for what you serve then it will be found. If its unique content then it will be seen by people, but if others in spain are doing it too then theres will score higher if searched for on the spanish google.
But... if you adding this content on a .co.uk and someone searches on google.com or google.co.uk then yours would normally show higher if using the same seo techniques.
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