Landing pages in different languages - Page 2

Dantek · #11 (**permalink**) 01-10-07, 06:31 PM

Thank you for your suggestions and advice.

For the language tag, I currently have this style for english pages:
<meta name="language" content="English" />

Should it be as you suggested:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">

What is the difference? Or more importantly, what do the serach engines understand?

Dantek · #12 (**permalink**) 01-10-07, 07:14 PM

I read up a little on the language tag and I am confused on what to use (not a coder).

My page says it's "XHTML 1.0 Transitional".

I read this page: http://www.w3.org/International/tuto...language-decl/

I found these as options:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />

I would think using them all would insure language recognition (although, I think the first 2 overlap).

Which one(s) should I use?

Peter Kersbergen · #13 (**permalink**) 02-10-07, 09:31 AM

Most Search Engines will recognise both the ISO 639 as well as the W3 standards. No need to use all W3 tags, one of them would do fine. The ISO 639 standard language tag alone would be absolutely fine but it doesn't hurt using one of the W3 standard language tags as well.

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