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romainberger
romainberger

Reputation: 4558

PHP script to detect the browser language, what about the google bot?

I am working on a website that will be avalaible on two language (english and french). I made a script to detect the browser language with $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] and depending on the result I load an xml file where all the text are written. I was wondering if this is a problem for the SEO, as I guess the google bot will get the english version but not the french? Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1289

Answers (1)

greut
greut

Reputation: 4363

Use the following link in your head to advertise the other language. An example for the french homepage:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="/?lang=en">

Otherwise Google cannot know and will only index one language (from my experience)

See: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=189077

Upvotes: 5

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