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Make a Bilingual SEO depending of user's country

I've build a website and I'm trying to make a bilingual SEO (french and english), my website has two pages :

mywebsitename.com/ and mywebsitename.com/en (for the english version)

Both has a meta description and title.

The problem is that both link (french and english) appears on the result of the search on google and I would to keep only one of them depend on the user's country:

Example:

If I live in France, I would like that the only link that appear is the french one and if you live in United States or an other english country I would like that the only link that appear is the english one.

Does anyone know how to do it ?

Solution

  • You should provide the crawler with more information using the hreflang attribute to specify different language versions of the page like this

    <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://mywebsitename.com/de" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://mywebsitename.com/en" />

    Read this.

    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

    You can also consider investing in a ccTLD(country code top-level domain) instead of a generic domain name. (.com, .org etc.). These are webpages ending in country specific two letter identifiers.

    http://www.mywebsitename.fr

    where fr stands for France.

    ccTLD is the most preferred way to target your audience geographically. Using a ccTLD would would tell the crawler that

    http://www.mywebsitename.fr

http://www.mywebsitename.us

    are two different sites altogether. This helps refine the results even better. Anyways. Hope it helps. Thanks for the question.