SEO Friendly Website Translation Help from Google

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SEO Friendly Website Translation Help from Google

How do you say HELLO in French? How about in Japanese? In recent years, some foreign markets have risen to become key consumers both in and out of the Web. Japan, for instance, has now become more than just a top-notch electronics exporter but an important consideration if you want to make it big in Asia. Now if you are setting your sights on expanding your business globally, you may just want to pay closer attention to Google’s new update for Internationalization. It speaks about how you can manage to translate page content from the universal language (English) to the ones spoken by most of the people in your site’s target territory.

Right now, you might think that this is too complicated. You might be fussing over the fact that you may encounter a lot of problems upon page content translation. Site maintenance could just possibly turn out to be a total nightmare. You may think that the more languages you offer, the greater the chance that the navigation or length of text may be distorted.

Well you need not to worry anymore because Google has prepared counter measures for all this. To summarize, here are some essential points that need to be taken into account when launching the pages in a multitude of tongues.

• Make it a habit to use the same template for all language versions.
• Second always keep the HTML of your templates simple. Lastly, as per Google, a practical tip on naming conventions when creating several language versions they recommend using language.
• Use language codes such as the ISO 639-1 as this will come in handy when you start dealing with several language versions of the same document.

Using a conventional standard will help users understand your site’s structure. Also, using the language codes for other site assets (logo images, PDF documents) will help you identify files quickly. This traffic should show up in your analytics dashboard, so you can get an idea of how many visitors are not viewing your site in the way it’s intended. Arigato GOOGLE!