Re: Sessions & Search Engines

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Why are you not setting a default language when the user has not specified any language? Depending on how clever you are you can set a default depending on where the user is coming from.

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Re^2: Sessions & Search Engines by ahmad (Hermit) on Apr 05, 2010 at 21:29 UTC
Yes I can, but this way search engines like google will only crawl the English version which is NOT what I want.	[reply]
Re^3: Sessions & Search Engines by Herkum (Parson) on Apr 06, 2010 at 02:50 UTC
Perhaps you should look at this, http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com and the section "Crawling and indexing your multilingual website" which tells you how to get the site crawled in several languages.	[reply]
Re^4: Sessions & Search Engines by ahmad (Hermit) on Apr 06, 2010 at 16:33 UTC
Thanks for the link To make all of your site's content more crawlable, avoid automatic redirections based on the user's perceived language. These redirections could prevent users (and search engines) from viewing all the versions of your site. And last but not least, keep the content for each language on separate URLs - don't use cookies to show translated versions. Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Looks like they have the same idea I was thinking of, but they're using mod_rewrite.	[reply]

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