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How does browser language redirect affect Google indexing?
As of 2015, Google understands the browser language redirection and will interpret it as a redirect to another URL. Google may index your site from multiple IP addresses and resolve the language redirect rules, but there is no guarantee to how this redirect affects your site’s indexing.
How is Google search multi-regional and multilingual?
Google Search tries to find the right locale page for the searcher. Some sites are both multi-regional and multilingual: for example, a site might have different versions for the USA and for Canada, and both French and English versions of the Canadian content.
What makes a website a multilingual site?
If your site offers different content to users in different languages, countries, or regions, you can optimize Google Search results for your site. A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language.
What to do if your website is indexed in the wrong language?
You should use Google Webmaster Tools to see how Google indexed your site. If you suspect that your content is indexed in the wrong language, it’s a good idea to disable the browser redirect. Google frequently updates their crawling and indexing algorithms. What works now may not work later and what fails now may work in the future.
What happens when you redirect to a new page?
The engines will carry any link weighting from the original page to the new URL, as below: Be aware that when moving a page from one URL to another, the search engines will take some time to discover the 301, recognize it, and credit the new page with the rankings and trust of its predecessor.
When does a 301 redirect pass PageRank?
So, a 301 redirect will pass 100 percent PageRank only if the redirect was pointing to a new URL that closely matched the topic of the old URL. This statement has always been interesting to me because this is exactly how a canonical tag works.
What are the different types of redirects in Seo?
Redirection is the process of forwarding one URL to a different URL. A redirect is a way to send both users and search engines to a different URL from the one they originally requested. The three most commonly used redirects are 301, 302, and Meta Refresh.