Is a Translated Web Page Duplicate Content?
SEO,Translation | Friday June 24 2011
What’s special about SEO Translate? We’ve spent a lot of time and consulted the best SEO professionals in the industry to ensure that the pages translated for your WordPress site create the best experience possible for not just your audience, but Google.
Your goal is to reach other potential customers, readers, and clients by making your site available in other languages; by reaching the audience searching for your content in those languages. Rest assured, translated pages will reach that search audience.
International SEO: Does Translating Content Make It Duplicate?
Our friends at seobywebmechanix.com recently explored this very question…
The simple answer here is no.
According to Google’s Webmaster blog, “Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won’t view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content.”
The article from WebMechanix nailed it. Thanks for sharing!