glitterball - 8:13 pm on Dec 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have recently made a change to a site that is localised in 3 Language versions, in the same was that Wikipedia is localised i.e. http://es.example.com, http://de.example.com etc.

Formerly, each page would contain a link to it's corresponding translation - a useful navigational link to the user. However, after just over a year much of the site had gone supplemental.

I have now removed these links, replacing them with new links that point to the homepage of each language version.

Since doing this, the pages that were supplemental have started to re-appear in the results and lose their supplemental status.

I really think that Google is creating a serious problem here. I have actally been forced to make my website worse for my users to satisfy the Google index, which is surely the opposite of what they should encourage.

[edited by: tedster at 8:42 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2006]
[edit reason] use example.com [/edit]