American and Canadian spelling on the same webpage (impact on website and rankings)
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Hi guys,
Just a quick question here - will google penalize a website for having both Canadian and American spelling on a webpage or negatively impact rankings?
Appreciate your help with this.
Mark
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Thanks for your reply! I'm wondering if Google would rank the same page for keywords in both American English and Canadian English. Let's say the page has the word 'color' and 'colour', could it rank that page for both?
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Google determines what language your page is in by reading the words on the page like a person. It doesn't look at anything behind the scenes, like the URL or
langattributes. That's why they recommend using one language per page (so no side-by-side translations).If you have the same content in different languages on your site, just add hyperlinks to the other language versions and let the user pick their preferred language. When you do that, use a different URL and hreflang annotations for each language version.
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