Releasing Multiple Language Blog Articles ?
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I was hoping anyone could give me some advice on my situation
Our blog is a huge traffic source for us, we frequently release fresh blog articles on our English language website bringing lots of relevant traffic for a variety of different relevant topics
Some of these articles would be very useful and relevant for visitors to our German website so i would like to get them translated and posted on our separate German language blog on our separate German website.
The article text will not change much as the information is the same for Germany also
How should i go about this without running into duplicate content issues with Google
I looked into rel=alternate and realized that i cannot use this over two separate websites, i also thought about rel=canonical but it doesn't look like this would be suitable either
Can anybody please give me any advice or thoughts on this ?
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If you are using WordPress you can use "J translate" which allows you to have multiple versions of the copy per language. That is what we use for our foreign clients or websites that require multiple languages.
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Thank you very much Simon and Tom, i remember watching this video in the past but clearly didn't take it in as well as i should of
We have a local German speaker so i intend to have the content accurately translated and i should be ok, so thank you
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Hi James
As far as I'm aware, if you translate the English text into German the new German content will not be seen as duplicate content. Here's a Matt Cutts video on the topic.
Provided it is translated properly into high quality German, you should be able to keep the subject matter very much the same without having to worry about duplicate content.
Hope this helps.
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Translated versions of the same content are not considered duplicates by Google. Just make sure they are properly translated and not auto translated.
Take a look at the is video from Matt Cutts which explains it all perfectly and should put you at ease.
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