Hosting location and display language.

Hosted by Instantweb shows in Dutch and English, hosted in NL not in NL?

[ikbenhet1]

Something weird i see, when i use Instant web with a .NU tld, the domain shows in English AND in Dutch language.

Now i have 2 .NU TLD's hosted in The Netherlands and it only shows for English language.

Just seems to me like this is an error. Any thoughts? (i know i can just use instant web for those 2, but hey i paid already, so maybe it can be solved?)

For the domains at instant web hosting i'm not using any language tags.
It just looks weird from me perspective. Any idea's?

[bignet]

i think language tags are irrelevant. G uses automatic language detection

is your site only in one language (including names and metas such as alt tags)?

[ikbenhet1]

I don't use alt tags. Meta tags are the same..It are EXACTLY the same 2 pages. only thing that has changed is the hosting location, in stead of "instantweb", i've chosen a dutch hosting company.
Now the page shows up for english but not for Dutch.
When i had instantweb the EXACT same pages showed up for Dutch AND English. Go figure.

I will leave it like this for a week, if nothing changes i'll have to take instant web again.
&lr=lang_nl is the problem when i leave this out, and only put in &hl=nl it does show for Dutch language.

Anybody had this problem before? if so what did you do to fix it?

[ikbenhet1]

Why did nobody suggest this?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="NL">

Well it worked anyway.

[heini]

Ikbenhet, the part that was confusing me was the hosting location. I don't think this has anything to do with how Google classifies your site's content language.

To me it sounds like Google's automatic language detection at first attempt didn't work properly. Problems with Google's automatic language detection have been reported repeatedly for several european languages.
The insertion of the meta lang tag may have helped, it may also been coincidental.

The hosting location however should only influence to which country a site gets assigned, not to which language.

In any case this is another good reminder to always stick the meta language tag into pages.

[ikbenhet1]

It worked before, and it worked again...

[webmasterworld.com...]

That's where i got my info, thanks g1smd!

<added> forgot to mention,i only put this code in 1 of them .NU domains, that listing now shows for dutch and the other domain without the meta language tag still does not appear at all in Dutch language, i'd like to beleive that's proof, at least to me is.</added>