Different language ranking of Google

[webbnissen]

We have a swedish site that is indexed in Google, and one of our pages with good pagerank is listed at top positions when searching in english google (hl=en) and hard to find in swedish (hl=sv same search words) which google set as default language here. After the top positions there coming a lot of links with pagerank 0 so it doesn't seem that there is a lot of swedish sites that is better than this page. When adding some more exactly search words it can be found. Why would Google rank down a url in its own language?

[doc_z]

Hi webbnissen and Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Why would Google rank down a url in its own language?

There are several possible explanations for such a behaviour, e.g.
- most of the incoming links are from pages/sites in other languages
- Googles determines the language of the page incorrectly

[BigDave]

Why would Google rank down a url in its own language?

It may not be that it is getting ranked down, It could be that it ranks worse than the others, but it is considered more relevant to english speakers than the other swedish pages.

For example, if there are some english pages linking to your page, and none linking to any of the others, then they might assume that your page holds more interest to english speakers. So Google might be filtering out those other pages, and your page then rises to the top.

[Adversity Sure Fire]

Let's try with good outbound links...

[webbnissen]

ok that can give a clue, in this the case it seems that the subpage had earned the PR internally and had only one external not-swedish page linking to it. That maybe explains, but many other top sites in that search seems to have none external links (link:) or few to them though. I thought a PR 4 was good enough for the url and it has the search words first on title. I go with trying to let Google find more links to this page.

[frox]

webbnissen, don't trust the link: operator too much.
Google hides quite a few results when you use it.

try searching "www.yourdomain.com" or comparing the different results you get in marketleap's Link Popularity Check thingy.