Multilingual Sites & Duplicate Content
With so many Wix users around the world, we’ve received quite a few inquiries about multilingual content. Are pages that have the same content in different languages considered duplicate content by Google?
It’s a good question in today’s globalized market.
Worldly Wix Websites
Creating a website with multilingual content is a great way to appeal to foreign-language speaking visitors. Your site might be an international business, or you may just want to appeal to members of different communities who live within the same geographical area. It’s also a smart way to ensure your site will come up for users who perform searches in their native tongues.
You’ll be relieved to find out that the answer is definitely NO: The same content in different languages is NOT considered duplicate content by search engines. This actually holds true even if the content is under the same domain, and hosted by the same server. So, if your free website has multilingual content on it, you do not need to worry about Google translating it on its own and choosing only one page of your site to index.
Keeping Things Organized
Separate your site’s multilingual content onto different pages, to make things easy for both your users and Search Engines. Creating separate pages for your site’s different content will be appreciated by users and contributes to your site’s usability. And an organized site is a popular site!
Bonus Design Tip:
While we’re on the subject…it’s worth noting that Wix just added some flashy new animated flag icons to the website builder. Found inside the Clip Art section, these icons can easily be turned into linkable buttons that connect to your site’s various language pages, for a sleek and optimized look!
Bonne chance!!
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I wished you had far eastern languges like Japanes, Korean and Chinese. I expressed my concern using ‘wishist.’ I need multilanguages as many as I can. You see why i need them.
Thanks for you guys support system i can depend on it.
June 26, 2011Hei ,
August 4, 2011I would like to set up a webshop with 2 languages and 2 currency .
Means I choose the “flag” English , and all my prices are in dollars , The “flag ” Norwegian , all prices are in Norwegian.
The payments with paypal . is it possible?
Regards
Carlo Golfetto
Hi Carlo, Currently, in Wix, each online shop (i.e., website) can have only one currency. We do not support multiple currencies per store. You’ll need to create two websites, each offering one currency (please notice that this means you’ll have to pay for two eCommerce premium packages and maintain two stores). Once you set up these two websites you can link between them. This isn’t an ideal situation but the good news are that this way you can have each store display a different language and a currency that is relevant to your target audience (Krone or dollars).
August 9, 2011Hi,
I just uprade my website in prenium.
I would like to know if possible i can make my website in two languages German & English.
My business in registered in germany and most of my customer is in german. But also because i make business in english language for my other customer which outside of Germany.
Hope to get an answer and other possiblity to improve my site.
Thank you very much
Zarina Bried
August 27, 2011Hi Zarina, yes you can! You can find all the answers you’re looking for here: http://bit.ly/oITOoY. Best of luck!
August 28, 2011Hi,
Just want to know, when Wix will support Hebrew in Wix components, especially at “text box”, “menu” and “page manager”.
For my web site it is crucial.
Thanks in advanced,
August 31, 2011Ofir.
Hi, I am setting up an English/Spanish website and I have duplicated my pages, but I can’t figure out how to use Spanish characters for the navigation buttons. I have no problem with the content of the pages. Thank you.
September 1, 2011I have created the website in 3 different languages but the paypal page only appears in english… it there a way to have the paypal page appear in each respective language?
September 1, 2011Hi guys,
September 14, 2011I just upgraded my site to premium. It´s a Spanish Language School in Madrid, and has a two-language version – a Spanish and an English one. It is important for us to optimize the page in both languages and soon in Russian and French as well. As I first set the English version however, all the tags that are related to the optimization of the site are in English. That means that optimizing the site in Spanish becomes nearly impossible. Also, even though there is a full Spanish version, in the source of the site does not appear anything in Spanish, not even a word, just in English. Can you please help me with a tip on how to introduce some keywords, description and title, as well as be able to take advantage of the text in Spanish in order to optimize the site in this language!
Thank you very much in advance!
Laza
Laza,
Please go to Wix.com >> Support and type in “Language”.
Good luck!
September 15, 2011Hi Audrey,
Please go to Wix.com >> Support and type in “Paypal languages”. You have all the info you need there.
September 15, 2011Hi Ellen,
Please go to http://es.wix.com/support/ and post your question. Our support team would be happy to help you.
September 15, 2011Hi Ofir,
This is what it says regarding Hebrew on our Support page:
For non-English languages, we encourage that you try the following:
1. Use Browser Text: Add ->Text -> Paragraphs -> Browser.
Browser Text works for most languages, but it doesn’t work for all of them. Currently, only Times New Roman and Arial fonts are available with Browser Text.
2. Save your text as a picture. Save the text as a .jpg in a graphic editing program, and upload it to your Wix document in .jpg format.
Alternately, if you know how to use a program such as Adobe Photoshop, you can save your text as a .png file with a transparent background and upload it this way. (Please note that this method is less SEO-friendly.)
3. Upload a Word or PDF document of your text to your Editor. This document will then be available for download by your users.
We hope we were able to help.
September 15, 2011I created a website in 4 languages, the problem is that the buttons do not work for languages 100%.
despite the fact that I did everything like in the video lesson, with the Russian language press only Moldovan and Bulgarian, if I choose Moldavian, to no longer can choose Bulgarian and Turkish, and if the principal (from Russian I choose Bulgarian , then you can choose Turkish and Moldovan, but not all languages , and after the selection of Turkish, you can select only the Moldovan language …… a strange sequence, and most importantly how to get rid of it??
I do not know how to explain the problem, but you can visit to see how poorly they work, just choose the languages that are pressed and the problem is obvious …
October 17, 2011Den,
Please visit http://support.wix.com/index.php/The_Wix_Editor/Wix_Character_Map and http://support.wix.com/index.php/The_Wix_Editor/Text for information on languages Wix supports.
October 23, 2011Can I create a menu for mini pages in Greek Language ?
Thanks?
October 27, 2011Dimitris,
Please read http://support.wix.com/index.php/The_Wix_Editor/Wix_Character_Map and http://support.wix.com/index.php/The_Wix_Editor/Text regarding languages Wix supports.
October 31, 2011Hi wix!
I boughr a premium package for my business website and I’m trying to follow the instructions to have it in two langages.
Everything goes well untill I edit the links for the flags.
When I try to do this, I select the page, click ok, but it still says Linked to: (nothing) select page, it asks me to select page again. Anyway, I cant seem to setup the link for my site in spanish and in english. why is this?
Thank You
November 22, 2011Hi Ignacio,
Please post your question on Wix.com >> Support. Our support team would be happy to help you.
Good Luck!
November 24, 2011the problem with Hebrew is the Right to Left writing that the website does not except, ands makes the written sentence be written in reverse.
December 23, 2011I also have tryria@gmail.com http://www.wix.com/fromchina/infant-medical-fund.
This site is to raise money for very urgent cases for the very poor.
January 25, 2012It needs to have Chinese language.
Can Wix become Chinese friendly, so that it can be written for all aspects or the site please? A quarter of the world’s population depend on it.
Hi Ria,
The option to use Chinese fonts is not available yet. We do not have an estimation of when it will be but we are constantly working on improving Wix’s language compatibility.
You can try to work around this issue by following instructions listed in our support forum:
January 25, 2012http://www.wix.com/support/forum/editor/text-and-areas/about-chinese-character-problem