Question

Hi i made a google web master tool account and sent 2 site maps: one for the italian language and one for the english one of my site.
Now, my site has a script in the index that redirects the users to mywebsite.it/it if he’s italian otherwise it will go to mywebsite.it/en.
The problem is that now google’s crawler(that obviously is not italian) only sees the english version of site and not both of them.

Is there a way to make it crawl and show the two different websites depending on the language?

Thanks

Answer 1

Do you use JavaScript to redirect the people? It would be better to use a server-side redirect, for example with .htaccess

However, when you link both language versions from your index page and Google accepted your sitemaps, your site should be okay to be indexed. Maybe it takes some more time until the crawler visits your Italian site, too.

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Update: You could/should add a language switcher for users to your site, and also link the translations in the head area of your site with the link element and rel="alternate and hreflang="it resp. "en". See Google: rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x”