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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 04/11/07 12:24
Greg N. wrote:
> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>
>> I'd recommend switching to using some kind of server-side scripting rather
>> than HTML. PHP would be one example.
>
> One characteristic of this solution is that a page might be served in
> one of two language versions - but with the same URL.
> What's the implication of this in terms of search engines?
As described in my previous post, each page would have effectively three
URLs. Taking as an example, "sitemap.php", you'd have:
http://example.com/sitemap.php?lang=en (English)
http://example.com/sitemap.php?lang=nl (Dutch)
http://example.com/sitemap.php (auto-detect)
Each page would have an explicit link to the other language version, so
they would both be picked up by search engines.
The only slight drawback from a search perspective would be that the URLs
themselves would only be in one particular language. So the URL for the
English "Help" page might be:
http://example.com/hulpbetoon.php?lang=en
Search engines do assign a certain significance to keywords present in the
URL, you'd need to decide whether that would be a major concern to you.
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