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Last updated by Bruno Kos 1 year, 11 months ago.

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May 9, 2023 at 11:31 am #13612983

joranM-3

I setup NL (dutch) as default language, but if I use Google search (google.com/google.nl as well) the results shows only de EN (English) version. Browser language also NL.

How can I fix this?

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May 10, 2023 at 1:24 pm #13623107

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)

Hi,

Thank you for contacting WPML support!

If you made this change recently, it is possible that Google has not crawled your website anew yet, and this is nothing we can assist with.

Perhaps you can reupload sitemaps?

Because if I check your website here:
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I can see that with provides correct information which is in Dutch, while I see that the meta information is also correct if I checked the source directly.

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Regards,
Bruno Kos
May 10, 2023 at 1:46 pm #13623329

joranM-3

Hi Bruno,

Thanks! I didn't change this recently.
Strange that Google shows it this way, because a few weeks ago it shows well.
May 11, 2023 at 7:53 am #13627911

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)

Hi,

The only option in WPML which can influence this is https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/automatic-redirect-based-on-browser-language/how-browser-language-redirect-affects-google-indexing/, however according to debug information I can see that this is disabled on your website and if this was active in your website, you would notice it because it would redirect according to browser language anyway.

Perhaps you can also try reindexing the website in Google, however we are not SEO experts so we cannot give any further guidelines.
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Regards,
Bruno Kos

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