Hi everyone, just a quick question. I'm don't know much about programming, and I was wondering how this king of pages were working:

Let's say: www.example.com/?lang=en and www.example.com/?lang=fr
Does the spiders consider these to pages as different?

From my understanding, this is the same page that load different content depending of this variable...

Could someone clarify this for me?

Thanks,

Julien

This topic came up at the last SES in San Jose in the duplicate content session. What someone from Google said was that even if the page has the exact same content, but it is in a different langauage, the pages will be looked at as seperate pages.

Now if you are asking whether the exact same content in the same langauage just has different directories such as /en and /fr, then my best guess is that it would be considered duplicate and only one page would get indexed by the search engines.

Hi Julien,

Let's say: www.example.com/?lang=en and www.example.com/?lang=fr
Does the spiders consider these to pages as different?

This should be fine, although personally I'd look to use mod_rewrite to create a URL structure such as:
example.com/francais/fromage.html
example.com/english/cheese.html
This not only makes the topic and page reasoning clearer, but also gives a nice and clean structure for the user.

:cool:

Rob