Mirroring part of my site in a different language

Hi,

I live in Canada which is officially bilingual. My site is in English,
although some products have information in French.

What I would like to do (to start off with) is have one section
duplicated, but completely in French, buttons and all. If I do this
will I be penalised for having 2 pages the same or wont Google know
because the language is different? I have clients from Quebec who don't
speak english and they find navigating quite difficult. I think this
will make my site more user friendly for them.

Any opinions would be very welcome.

Louise

<Louise.Richardson (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote

Hi,

I live in Canada which is officially bilingual. My site is in English,
although some products have information in French.

What I would like to do (to start off with) is have one section
duplicated, but completely in French, buttons and all. If I do this
will I be penalised for having 2 pages the same or wont Google know
because the language is different? I have clients from Quebec who don't
speak english and they find navigating quite difficult. I think this
will make my site more user friendly for them.

Any opinions would be very welcome.

You can have the site in 2 languages, mirrored on 2 pages. It would be
different as the wording of course is in a different language.

Stacey

On 7 Oct 2005 12:56:19 -0700, "Louise.Richardson (AT) shaw (DOT) ca"
<Louise.Richardson (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote:

Hi,

I live in Canada which is officially bilingual. My site is in English,
although some products have information in French.

What I would like to do (to start off with) is have one section
duplicated, but completely in French, buttons and all. If I do this
will I be penalised for having 2 pages the same or wont Google know
because the language is different? I have clients from Quebec who don't
speak english and they find navigating quite difficult. I think this
will make my site more user friendly for them.

Any opinions would be very welcome.

Louise

I think you'll be ok with this.

BB
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Louise.Richardson (AT) shaw (DOT) ca wrote:

Hi,

I live in Canada which is officially bilingual. My site is in English,
although some products have information in French.

What I would like to do (to start off with) is have one section
duplicated, but completely in French, buttons and all. If I do this
will I be penalised for having 2 pages the same or wont Google know
because the language is different? I have clients from Quebec who don't
speak english and they find navigating quite difficult. I think this
will make my site more user friendly for them.

Any opinions would be very welcome.

Hi Louise,

Put up as many languages as you like and make sure you maintain a
propper site-structure.

Put a link to the same page in a different language on each page
translated into another. Should a visitor for any reason have reached a
page in a language he doesn't understand, he will be gratefull if you
provide him a link to the same information in a language he does understand.

Tonnie

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Tonnie wrote:

Put a link to the same page in a different language on each page
translated into another.

Be careful with your anchortext though.

When I added links to English versions of some of my Danish sites, with
anchor text in English, Google immediately moved my Danish pages to the
English language category, thus classifying my Danish pages as being in
English.

I then moved the anchor text from the body text to a menu, which was at
the bottom of the html but placed up on the page by my css, and Google
has now reverted my pages to the Danish language category.

Mikkel

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Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:

Tonnie wrote:


Put a link to the same page in a different language on each page
translated into another.


Be careful with your anchortext though.

When I added links to English versions of some of my Danish sites, with
anchor text in English, Google immediately moved my Danish pages to the
English language category, thus classifying my Danish pages as being in
English.

I then moved the anchor text from the body text to a menu, which was at
the bottom of the html but placed up on the page by my css, and Google
has now reverted my pages to the Danish language category.

Strange, never happend to me.

What if you used the lang='dk' attribute?


Tonnie

--
Glas geschiedenis http://vision2form.nl/glashistorie.html
Passie en talent http://vision2form.nl/young_talent.html
Webontwerp http://vision2form.nl/webontwerp/index.html
SEO gaat zo http://vision2form.nl/webontwerp/gevonden-worden.html

Tonnie wrote:

Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer wrote:

Tonnie wrote:


Put a link to the same page in a different language on each page
translated into another.



Be careful with your anchortext though.

When I added links to English versions of some of my Danish sites,
with anchor text in English, Google immediately moved my Danish pages
to the English language category, thus classifying my Danish pages as
being in English.

I then moved the anchor text from the body text to a menu, which was
at the bottom of the html but placed up on the page by my css, and
Google has now reverted my pages to the Danish language category.


Strange, never happend to me.

What if you used the lang='dk' attribute?

I did, after noticing the problem.

It didn't help though. I gave it a couple of months, I think, to make
sure that Google was unable to correct the error. Nothing happened.

Then I made the change and moved the link, and the site was reverted to
Danish a few days later.

Mikkel

--
Guatemala travel, Spanish studies, volunteering:
http://lakjer.dk/mikkel/spanish.shtml