Google Indexing Part two
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Hi Everybody,
I am trying to understand how does Google works, so I ve been reading and researching a lot.
But I am still having a problem that I cannot solve.
My website is in several languages, but its main language is Catalan.
so if you get into my webite: "www.vallnord.com" the default language will be catalan.
but if someone using Google.es in Spanish I would like the spanish version of the web to be the main result not the catalan.
unfortunately this does not work like this. For a search query like "Esqui Andorra" the catalan version is on the 1st page and the spanish (www.vallnord.com/es) is on the 4th page.
Does anybody know why is this happening or how can I solve it?
Regards.
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Thank you Alan!;
I will try it out.
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Here this article should interest you
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html
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