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Video: Expanding your site to more languages
Monday, September 30, 2013
Webmaster Level: Intermediate to Advanced We filmed a video providing more details about expanding your site to more languages or country-based language variations. The video covers details about
rel=”alternate” hreflang
and potential implementation on your multilingual and/or multinational site.
Video and
slides
on expanding your site to more languages
You can watch the entire video or skip to the relevant sections:
Potential search issues with international sites
Questions to ask within your company before beginning international expansion
International site use cases
rel=”alternate” hreflang and hreflang=”x-default”: details and implementation
Best practices
Additional resources on hreflang include:
Webmaster Help Center article on
rel=”alternate” hreflang and hreflang=”x-default”
More blog posts
Working with multilingual sites
Working with multiregional sites
New markup for multilingual content
Introducing "x-default hreflang” for international landing pages"
Webmaster discussion forum FAQ on internationalization
Webmaster discussion forum for internationalization
(review answers or post your own question!)
Good luck as you expand your site to more languages!
Written by
Maile Ohye
, Developer Programs Tech Lead
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