Google results show the wrong language when searching in secondary language

  • Hi and thanks for the great plugin.

    A client of mine is using Polylang for their website (English/Spanish, with English as default), and has been running into a very specific issue regarding SEO. I was hoping that you could help me out.

    When a user searches for some of the Spanish keywords in Google search (e.g. “abogados de inmigracion en atlanta”), the Google search results will show the homepage, but with the results in English: the title is in English, the Description is in English, and the link is to the English homepage. That said, the Spanish keywords (aside from “Atlanta”) do not appear anywhere on the English homepage. This is hurting SEO for the Spanish homepage and we can’t figure out why this is occurring.

    I was wondering what might trigger this kind of behavior. The same search query results in the correct page on duckduckgo, and in bing.

    Any ideas? Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks so much for your help!
    Chris

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by cmborchert.

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  • Hola,
    Instalé el plugin Polylang y traduje 2 páginas internas de mi web.
    Antes de la instalación del plugin y la traducción de estas 2 páginas a inglés, ocupaban posiciones inferiores a la 10 posición de resultados en Google.
    Desde la publicación de las 2 páginas en inglés he perdido estas posiciones y ahora no aparecen en los resultados de Google.
    Traduje tanto los textos, títulos, meta tags, etc. al inglés, y me da la sensación que la versión inglesa de las páginas ha alterado los meta tags de las páginas en espa?ol y por eso ahora no aparecen en Google.
    ?A alguien más le ha pasado?
    ?Qué se debe hacer para poder tener la página web en más de un idioma sin perder las posiciones en Google?
    Me es muy importante poder solucionar esto pues la página web es mi principal fuente de ingresos.
    Muchas gracias.

    Hi @cmborchert,

    Our company’s website is running into this exact problem. We also use Polylang !

    We just noticed that Google search for keywords in Romanian (one of the languages supported by our website) always returns the English version of those pages. Same as in cmborchert’s case, the English pages do not contain the Romanian keywords. This is a very big problem for us too. We have noticed a drop in customers from Romania and we couldn’t understand why and now we finally found this Google search problem ?? Our Romanian clients can no longer find the Romanian pages in Google search.

    Maybe someone from the Polylang team can help us find the source of the problem ?
    @cmborchert Did you manage to solve the issue for your client ?

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