Search engine indexing of content in other languages

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I have no idea how to do this, or if it happens automatically, but it would
be great if we could get the public content in the various translations
into Google.

BW will provide the correct language based on the browser's Accept-Language
header, and maybe various flavors of Google will do this automatically?  Is
there some other best practice I should use?

Does ORM know?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by liza31337@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2009 at 6:43

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I don't think Google will send Accept-Language.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-start-multilingual-sit
e.html
"""In this case, we recommend either of these two options:

  1. Put the content of every language in a different subdomain. For our example, you
would have en.example.com, de.example.com, and es.example.com.
  2. Put the content of every language in a different subdirectory. This is easier to
handle when updating and maintaining your site. For our example, you would have
example.com/en/, example.com/de/, and example.com/es/.
"""

Here's StackOverflow:
"""They don't send accept-language, so the site will be indexed in the default
language that you select.

I recommend you to have different URL for each language, not only for the search
engines, but for letting the user change the site language without changing the
"accept-language" and letting the user to send a URL to a friend with the 
language
selected."""

Original comment by abdela...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2009 at 9:41