Troubleshooting hreflang annotations in Webmaster Tools

If you are targeting users in more than one country, chances are you already heard about rel-alternate-hreflang . If you haven't, in sho...

Creating the Right Homepage for your International Users

If you are doing business in more than one country or targeting different languages, we recommend having separate sites or sections with spe...

6 Quick Tips for International Websites

Note from the editors: After previously looking into various ways to handle internationalization for Google’s web-search , here’s a post fro...

Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages

Webmaster Level: All The homepages of multinational and multilingual websites are sometimes configured to point visitors to localized page...

Now you can polish up Google’s translation of your website

Webmaster level: All (Cross-posted on the Google Translate Blog ) Since we first launched the Website Translator plugin back in September ...

Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps

Webmaster level: All In December 2011 we announced annotations for sites that target users in many languages and, optionally, countries. Th...

New markup for multilingual content

Many websites serve users from around the world. There are different approaches to serving content appropriate to your users' language a...

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Webmaster level: Intermediate So you’re going global, and you need your website to follow. Should be a simple case of getting the text trans...

Unifying content under multilingual templates

Webmaster Level: Advanced Update: This markup can now be used for multilingual and multi-regional content in general. More information . I...

Working with multilingual websites

Webmaster Level: Intermediate A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual ...

Working with multi-regional websites

Webmaster Level: Intermediate Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more imp...

Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally

(This has been cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) How long would it take to translate all the world's web content into 50 lang...

Watch out for your .yu domain!

Are you the owner of a .yu domain ? Then you might have heard the news: as of September 30, all .yu domains will stop working , regardless ...

Better targeting your indic language site

A lot has been said about how to start a multi-lingual site and how to better target content through meta tags . Our users have raised a nu...

Helping you break the language barrier

When webmasters put content out on the web it's there for the world to see. Unfortunately, most content on the web is only published in ...

How to start a multilingual site

Have you ever thought of creating one or several sites in different languages? Let's say you want to start a travel site about backpacki...