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Geotargeted content: getting Google to index non-english pages

When geotargeting by IP, how does Google find non English content?

         

eltercerhombre

3:23 pm on Sep 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi all there,

First of all, sorry if this is not the right forum (maybe cloaking could be too). I've been searching in GG and the forums for hours but I'm not able to find the info I'm looking for.

We have a pretty big site, in several languages, and we are serving content based on visitors IP address (by geo-ip). Google's IP is from the US, and as per Matt Cutts latest video on this, what we should do is to show GG the same as we show to US visitors.

We do not want to do any "black hat" cloaking, but of course we really would like to have all the non-english content indexed by Google. Do any of you guys have any idea? Is there a way we could have them to index german, spanish, italian... pages, while not breaking any of the guidelines?

Having special non geotargeted pages is not a solution, as then people will arrive via SE's to non geotargeted content.

Many thanks to all of you in advance.

Olney

4:16 pm on Sep 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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This is not just a Google Issue
Most people that Geotarget content don't realize that Yahoo (Internationa versions) is also only indexing the content that is viewable from the US.

eltercerhombre

4:24 pm on Sep 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

That's a good point, it not only a Google issue. But you know: whose the one who wants to dance with the ugly one?

I mean, on that case -and many others-, GG could be providing tons of traffic. The issue is with German, Spanish, Italian, French... and other European languages. In Europe nearly everyone and their dog uses google.

Therefore, GG is the first thing to solve. But yes, they're not the only SE.