[email protected] (2009-11-27 13:01): > Suppose I have a bunch of pages with the MultiLanguage recipe[1] > The page structure is basically > > (:if userlang en:) > english text > (:if userlang it:) > italian text > (:if:) > > Now, my questions are: > - what does Google see as it spiders the pages? > - does such a structure make sense in order to have the contents well indexed? > - wouldn't it be better (google-wise) to manage separated pages for > different languages?
Google and Yahoo do index the ?lang=xx pages as separate ones and searching for text in different languages works just fine. Note that I do provide the ?lang=xx links in a sitemap [1], but I don't know whether it has any influence or not. [1] http://www.sitemaps.org, there was a GoogleSitemap or a similar recipe for this, but I use a custom one (IIRC, mine was simple, but featureless in comparison). P.S. I still think that typing (:if userlang en:) is too much and it is easy enough to support (:en:). -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
