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dav
dav

Reputation: 9277

CakePHP Multilanguage website's seo. Same url with same content, but different interface

Suppose I have an Armenian website(content(without interface related words) is only in Armenian), but I want the interface to be available also in Russian and in English. It happens that for these different languages, in Cakephp I will have the same url and the same(Armenian) content, but different interface. like

example.com/some-url          [for english]

  menu -> Home
  content -> some armenian text

example.com/some-url          [for russian]

  menu -> [Home in russian]
  content - some armenian text

example.com/some-url          [for armenian]

  menu -> [Home in armenian]
  content -> some armenian text

So, I wanted to ask whether this is ok for seo, because search engine will see these same url-s with slightly different words from the interface part.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 441

Answers (1)

Raffaele
Raffaele

Reputation: 20885

From what I understand, the "interface" is mainly back office (administration) so you don't really have to worry about search engines.

To me, it doesn't make much sense to have an Armenian-only site with multiple "interface" languages, because the user has to understand Armenian to work with it. Anyway for truly multilingual sites (ie the language of the page depends on some HTTP request parameter) my suggestion is to go against that convention and using different URLs for different languages: not because that gives some proved advantage from the SEO perspective, but because it dramatically speeds up testability and hence development time.

Upvotes: 2

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