Translate press content duplication issues

  • Resolved shubhamvoxco

    (@shubhamvoxco)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    We have our site in English, German & French. We are concerned that translate press creates two more language pages for every page or none at all. Pages that don’t have a translation automatically show hreflang versions in German and French but with the content still being in English. Doesn’t this lead to content duplication problems as the same content is now shown on three pages. Won’t Google penalise us for these? Is there a solution?

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  • Plugin Support Alex

    (@alexcozmoslabs)

    Hi,

    TranslatePress does not create new posts/pages for the translated versions of the original post. But the translated versions will have separate URLs. That means every page has a separate URL for each language no matter if that page is translated or not.

    We’re clearly defining the language and offer the alternative languages in the HTML, so google should know these are not duplicate content pages, but translated versions.
    The only bad thing that can happen is for those untranslated pages to simply not rank as good in the short term. Your translated pages will still be indexed, we have proper hreflang tags that signal the translated version and the language switcher are proper links.

    Thread Starter shubhamvoxco

    (@shubhamvoxco)

    Hi Alex,

    The pages which we have on our website are not auto-translated. The translations for some are manually added and for some they are never added, like this one blogLink . Would this be flagged as duplicate?

    I was also trying to remove a few pages and posts from translation and have added the list in the exclude from translation option in the settings. The pages got excluded just fine but the blog posts are not excluded correctly. It still shows language switcher on such pages and when other language is selected it goes into a redirection loop. Example for the excluded one link . Any solution to this specific issue?
    Is there any other solution available to exclude blog posts from translations?

    Plugin Support Alex

    (@alexcozmoslabs)

    We have proper hreflang tags that signal the translated version and the language switcher are proper links you should not be flagged as duplicate.

    About the excluding method, try to exclude each post in part, not the entire path like /blog/blog-post1/* because this way will not work. We are aware of this and will be fixed in the future. So, you should try to exclude just the /blog-post1/* considering our example

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