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[Closed] I put the English text in the back-end and Dutch in the front-end. Which will be indexed by google?

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Last updated by Kor 5 months ago.

Assisted by: Kor.

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June 27, 2024 at 8:33 am #15841830

kajsaR

Background of the issue:
We have an English site and are translating it to Dutch. Since WPML only allows sentence-by-sentence translation and there are thousands of sentences, we copied the English text in WPML and saved it as the translation. Then, we edited the new page with Elementor and added the Dutch text all at once.

Symptoms:
Uncertainty about which language (English or Dutch) will be indexed by Google.

Questions:
Which language will be indexed by Google: the English texts in WPML or the Dutch texts added via Elementor?
June 27, 2024 at 11:54 am #15843628

Kor
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us. Typically, to ensure your content is indexed by Google, you'll need to upload a sitemap to Google Search Console for crawling. Once this is done, Google bot will crawl your entire site and index it.

This means that each page you've translated from English to Dutch will have both languages indexed by Google.

For best results, we recommend using an SEO plugin like Yoast or Rankmath to generate a well-structured sitemap. You can also enhance SEO integration with our addon available at https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/wpml-seo/.

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