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In writing the url, it is better to use the language used by the people of my country or English?
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We speak Persian and all people search in Persian on Google. But I read in some sources that the url should be in English. Please tell me which language to use for url writing?
For example, I brought down two models: -
@ghesta one caveat though: in some cases, you may want to transliterate the characters from the page's language (Persian) into latin characters, or even use English version of the URLs. Yes, Google claims that non-latin characters are supported, in some cases, you still may want to do transliteration, especially if you manage a large website, or support many languages, for tracking and reporting purposes.
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@gpainter
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Always use the language of the intended user/page.
I have to assume people talk about English as they're talking about an English search engine but if your users are searching in Persian and looking for a Persian then why not specify the page is in Persian.If you wanted you could create an English version of the page though if you are not targeting English and your audience will not use it I wouldn't worry about it.
in short: always use the language tag for the page the correlates with the on-page language.
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