OC 3.0.3.1
My website has two languages
i have different url, title, decription, name, for every language
i have lang="" tag for every language in head of every page
i have canonical tag for every page in every language
but still have dublicate content on search console
I have seo module (seo opencart pro) for hreflang, but does not solve the problem
default language url: mywebsite/product mywebsite/category mywebsite/subcategory
second language url: mywebsite/produkt mywebsite/kategory mywebsite/subkategory
seo module url: mywebsite/en/produkt mywebsite/en/kategory mywebsite/en/subkategory
So, still dublicated content
I Would prefer to add custom code, not to use extension, because most extensions create more problems than they solve (from my exerience)
Where in search console is it telling you its duplicated content
are you sure its not getting mixed up with
www.mydomain.com
mydomain.com
or even http V https
ALSO
Google search console is a very broken and unreliable thing :-)
are you sure its not getting mixed up with
www.mydomain.com
mydomain.com
or even http V https
ALSO
Google search console is a very broken and unreliable thing :-)
Yes i am sure it is not the domain or http / https. We have checked almost every duplicated page and it is due to the second language.mikeinterserv wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:40 pmWhere in search console is it telling you its duplicated content
are you sure its not getting mixed up with
www.mydomain.com
mydomain.com
or even http V https
ALSO
Google search console is a very broken and unreliable thing :-)
Search Console has some issues, i agree, but opencart creates even more
Google will NOT treat 2 pages that are the same BUT in a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE entirely as
Duplicate content - even if it says so in search console. I would not worry about it.
You will NOT be penalised by google for this.
Duplicate content - even if it says so in search console. I would not worry about it.
You will NOT be penalised by google for this.
Google has not indexed many of these pages for over a month at least, we had to manually request indexing again, in order to be indexed.mikeinterserv wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:53 amGoogle will NOT treat 2 pages that are the same BUT in a DIFFERENT LANGUAGE entirely as
Duplicate content - even if it says so in search console. I would not worry about it.
You will NOT be penalised by google for this.
I undestand that there are additional reasons for not indexing quickly, but this only happens to the pages marked as duplicated
Many sites in the last year have been taking a VERY LONG TIME to be indexedziatakis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:21 amGoogle has not indexed many of these pages for over a month at least, we had to manually request indexing again, in order to be indexed.
I undestand that there are additional reasons for not indexing quickly, but this only happens to the pages marked as duplicated
Many people report SEARCH CONSOLE for making the site indexing WORSE than when the site is NOT in SEARCH CONSOLE.
My own experience suggests there may be something in this.
But MANY have complained of painfully SLOW INDEXING.
Especially on NEW sites
You appear to have done a good deal of work and your knowledge on the subject appears good too so I think you have so far done everything you can.
This is directly from Google
Google tries hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has a "regular" and "printer" version of each article, and neither of these is blocked with a noindex tag, we'll choose ONE of them to list
I think its this that may be happening to your pages.
Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... te-content
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I hope that delayd indexing is only due to gsc issues, but we will keep looking into this matter.mikeinterserv wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:36 amMany sites in the last year have been taking a VERY LONG TIME to be indexedziatakis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:21 amGoogle has not indexed many of these pages for over a month at least, we had to manually request indexing again, in order to be indexed.
I undestand that there are additional reasons for not indexing quickly, but this only happens to the pages marked as duplicated
Many people report SEARCH CONSOLE for making the site indexing WORSE than when the site is NOT in SEARCH CONSOLE.
My own experience suggests there may be something in this.
But MANY have complained of painfully SLOW INDEXING.
Especially on NEW sites
You appear to have done a good deal of work and your knowledge on the subject appears good too so I think you have so far done everything you can.
This is directly from Google
Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... te-content
Thank you for you time
Just saw the update, we try to pay attention to every detail, to continuously improving performance, seo ranking, and user experiencemikeinterserv wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:52 amSorry I updated my post at the same time you posted I added a bit more
This is what I was looking for took me a while to find it
Use different URLs for different language versions
Google recommends using different URLs for each language version of a page rather than using cookies or browser settings to adjust the content language on the page.
Straightlight or someone else can tell you how this can work in opencart, I am not sure if as standard the language changes the urls
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... onal-sites
Use different URLs for different language versions
Google recommends using different URLs for each language version of a page rather than using cookies or browser settings to adjust the content language on the page.
Straightlight or someone else can tell you how this can work in opencart, I am not sure if as standard the language changes the urls
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... onal-sites
I have read this article some time ago, and we have done almost everything, lang="" tag, different urls for every language, different sitemap for every language.mikeinterserv wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:26 amThis is what I was looking for took me a while to find it
https://developers.google.com/search/do ... onal-sites
Only for the hreflang and alternate link we have not find a solution yet, and our seo extension creates new (undesirable) urls for the second language
default language url : mywebsite/product
ours second language url : mywebsite/produkt
extensions second language alternate url: mywebsite/en/produkt
url: mywebsite/produkt and
url: mywebsite/en/produkt
is the same page, same content, same heading title. Doesn't this affect duplication?
NO you are doing EXACTLY what google asks.ziatakis wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:57 amurl: mywebsite/produkt and
url: mywebsite/en/produkt
is the same page, same content, same heading title. Doesn't this affect duplication?
It may be the same content but for language purposes you have done what google asked and given then UNIQUE urls
Your other language code settings etc help google determine this a language change issue and nothing more, in another county google may display a different language url to what you see in YOUR country
Thank you, it was very usefull to clear that outmikeinterserv wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:01 amNO you are doing EXACTLY what google asks.
It may be the same content but for language purposes you have done what google asked and given then UNIQUE urls
Your other language code settings etc help google determine this a language change issue and nothing more, in another county google may display a different language url to what you see in YOUR country
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