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multilang - 3:32 am on Nov 1, 2002 (gmt 0)


Hi,

First post under this new name cause I got kicked out for not using the other one :(

I have a website in 5 languages, but only three of them (English, Dutch and French) have been spidered this time. I updated too late for this month update.

When I do a search in English using let's say google.fr my site shows as second for my main keyword, when i do the same under google.com/en it's nowhere to be found.

How come?

I am Belgian too (French speaking) but I didn't opt for any one language on the index page. I put all five languages on the index of the root (obviously I can't have that many languages in the title tag) and each language homepage is under /en /de /fr /es /nl. Anybody doing like this?

I managed to get three Dmoz listing in a month pointing to /en /nl and /es. Been trying to get in the French version to no avail, the editor must think 3 is enough (the previous company I did SEO for managed to get 7 dmoz listing).

I didn't use the language meta for this update, just put it now to see if this would improve the situation.

I thought that the reason I am not showing up in English was maybe that my PR was not good enough, but why I am 2nd in google.fr typing English keywords.

Any hint is higly welcome


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