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Googlebot problem with multilingual website?

Is Google not indexing multilingual websites that offer duplicate content?

         

itloc

12:03 am on Nov 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hi there

Ok, here is what i have so far. Since 2 weeks i am running a large new website with app. 20'000 listings both in english and german language.

The website has two master folders such as:

[domain.com...] (german)
[domain.com...] (english)

Becase english visitors (mostly) do not understand german, these listings are not visible by default. Because german visitors are often able to understand english, they are also able to see the enlish listings.

So what is the effect of this? I do have a listing in english called "ABCDE" both on the enligh part and on the german part of the website.

It seems that Google hates that - or is the bot always that slow? After 2 weeks i do have 256 pages on google ... thats unusable...

Any feedback is very welcome...

itloc