Hi:
I would like to know if other webmasters have met the same
problem as me.
My web site is bilingual. It has roughly the same material and
the same presentation in French and English. I generate words
around names with a home-made software.
Because it is genealogy, names are the same in both versions. But
the text is different. However, Google is indexing only the French
version and not the English version. Both are cross-linked so a
visitor can jump to the other version, but many of them just don't
catch what "English version" means and continue to visit the French
version.
Genealogical sites are somewhat different when compared to other
web sites as a part of the material is similar. Otherwise, you will
see a completely different text in the other language. Also, if you
display one family per page (and put their name in the <title> tag,
you will see them in the bar at the top of the browser.
Also, a genealogy web site may have a very huge number of pages.
Is there other similar bilingual sites so that I can compare and
eventually improve my site ?
My own site:
(Entry page) French/English
http://francogene.com/genealogie-quebec/998/
http://francogene.com/quebec-genealogy/998/
A typical page
http://francogene.com/genealogie-quebec/008/512.php
http://francogene.com/quebec-genealogy/008/512.php
I already use a tag to identify the language:
<html lang="en">
Also, I contacted Google as I have their advertisements on the site.
They said their tool was detecting the language from the browser
so that you should see a banner in the language of the visitor.
In other words, there is no issue at that level. It is only for the
full indexing of the site that I would like to discuss.
At this time:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Af ... -genealogy
finds 359 results compared to
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Af ... gie-quebec
that finds 42 300 results (summing both versions)
Denis
Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper
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Hugh Watkins
Re: Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
Denis Beauregard wrote:
a good point
but have you made a full xml google site map?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
in xml
try that first
then make some static pages on another site linking to your stuff
Hugh W
Hi:
I would like to know if other webmasters have met the same
problem as me.
My web site is bilingual. It has roughly the same material and
the same presentation in French and English. I generate words
around names with a home-made software.
Because it is genealogy, names are the same in both versions. But
the text is different. However, Google is indexing only the French
version and not the English version. Both are cross-linked so a
visitor can jump to the other version, but many of them just don't
catch what "English version" means and continue to visit the French
version.
Genealogical sites are somewhat different when compared to other
web sites as a part of the material is similar. Otherwise, you will
see a completely different text in the other language. Also, if you
display one family per page (and put their name in the <title> tag,
you will see them in the bar at the top of the browser.
Also, a genealogy web site may have a very huge number of pages.
Is there other similar bilingual sites so that I can compare and
eventually improve my site ?
My own site:
(Entry page) French/English
http://francogene.com/genealogie-quebec/998/
http://francogene.com/quebec-genealogy/998/
A typical page
http://francogene.com/genealogie-quebec/008/512.php
http://francogene.com/quebec-genealogy/008/512.php
I already use a tag to identify the language:
html lang="en"
Also, I contacted Google as I have their advertisements on the site.
They said their tool was detecting the language from the browser
so that you should see a banner in the language of the visitor.
In other words, there is no issue at that level. It is only for the
full indexing of the site that I would like to discuss.
At this time:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Af ... -genealogy
finds 359 results compared to
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Af ... gie-quebec
that finds 42 300 results (summing both versions)
a good point
but have you made a full xml google site map?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
in xml
try that first
then make some static pages on another site linking to your stuff
Hugh W
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K0BBE
Re: Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
"Denis Beauregard" smeet in de groep:
That must be a metatag:
one page in two languages:
<meta name="language" content="NL,FR" />
or two different pages:
<meta name="language" content="NL" />
<meta name="language" content="FR" />
--
K0BBE
:: Webblad: [ http://tinyurl.com/csb8n ]
:: E-adres: incorrect
I would like to know if other webmasters have met the same
problem as me.
I already use a tag to identify the language:
html lang="en"
That must be a metatag:
one page in two languages:
<meta name="language" content="NL,FR" />
or two different pages:
<meta name="language" content="NL" />
<meta name="language" content="FR" />
--
K0BBE
:: Webblad: [ http://tinyurl.com/csb8n ]
:: E-adres: incorrect
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John Nichols
Re: Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
"K0BBE" <incorrect@dres.com> wrote in message
news:43a43a52$0$10082$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl...
to both languages.
news:43a43a52$0$10082$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl...
"Denis Beauregard" smeet in de groep:
I would like to know if other webmasters have met the same
problem as me.
I already use a tag to identify the language:
html lang="en"
That must be a metatag:
one page in two languages:
meta name="language" content="NL,FR" /
or two different pages:
meta name="language" content="NL" /
meta name="language" content="FR" /
--
K0BBE
:: Webblad: [ http://tinyurl.com/csb8n ]
:: E-adres: incorrect
I think Kobbe has nailed it, Denis. You need a meta tag or two that refers
to both languages.
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Denis Beauregard
Re: Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:03:45 +0000, Hugh Watkins
<hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
The concept of sitemaps is to tell the spider to visit new pages
first. I am not sure it was made to be sure all pages are
correctly indexed. And in my case, all those pages **are**
indexed (in the wrong subdirectory however).
I don't understand this one. There are hundreds of pages on other
sites linking to some page on my site, so there are already many
external links.
Denis
<hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
a good point
but have you made a full xml google site map?
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login
The concept of sitemaps is to tell the spider to visit new pages
first. I am not sure it was made to be sure all pages are
correctly indexed. And in my case, all those pages **are**
indexed (in the wrong subdirectory however).
in xml
try that first
then make some static pages on another site linking to your stuff
I don't understand this one. There are hundreds of pages on other
sites linking to some page on my site, so there are already many
external links.
Denis
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Gjest
Re: Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google
Mine is in Spanish and English on the same page.
SurnamesByTown.com
SurnamesByTown.com