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Hi, i think its a mix of narrow minded developer / developer who does not know which source to trust (IP or Browser) / developer who uses the wrong CMS. These t

Hi, i think its a mix of narrow minded developer / developer who does not know which source to trust (IP or Browser) / developer who uses the wrong CMS. These three factors influence each other. Beside that, setting up a multilingual page prepares several questions for a developer like Toplevel Domain vs. Subdomain vs. Path vs. nothing to enable diffrent languages. Therefor all those SEO Questions and Text encoding questions come into the game. And at the end: Does my CMS support my well thought solution? Developers are lazy and they usally take the easiest way ... even many of Googles own pages are not SEO optimized! Greets! Chris

stephenr 13y ago
I can understand (to some extent) a junior dev using some flavour of the month framework/cms not getting this stuff right. But this is not some "oh the framework does it that way" issue - Google are well known for hiring excessively smart people, and building their own tech when whats available isn't "good enough" - and yet this shit is pervasive through their pages.
- Lorenz-Kraft 13y ago
  Like i said, even many Google pages are not SEO optimized... also in big companies there are big structures and you have to know this structures to properly use them. Multilingual is a extension of single Lingual and if you do not set up something as multilingual (may because its to much overhead for a small project) its pretty much work to fix it later on... and sometimes its not even possible, because your desired my domain.fr (fr = france tld) is already sold ...) By the way: being smart does not mean anything as long as you can't show it. And being smart in one thing does not mean you are smart in every way. There are just ordinary people at google who do not SEO optimize their pages and make mistakes setting up multilingual pages ... just normal.

stephenr 13y ago

I can understand (to some extent) a junior dev using some flavour of the month framework/cms not getting this stuff right. But this is not some "oh the framework does it that way" issue - Google are well known for hiring excessively smart people, and building their own tech when whats available isn't "good enough" - and yet this shit is pervasive through their pages.

Lorenz-Kraft 13y ago
Like i said, even many Google pages are not SEO optimized... also in big companies there are big structures and you have to know this structures to properly use them. Multilingual is a extension of single Lingual and if you do not set up something as multilingual (may because its to much overhead for a small project) its pretty much work to fix it later on... and sometimes its not even possible, because your desired my domain.fr (fr = france tld) is already sold ...) By the way: being smart does not mean anything as long as you can't show it. And being smart in one thing does not mean you are smart in every way. There are just ordinary people at google who do not SEO optimize their pages and make mistakes setting up multilingual pages ... just normal.