Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google

Genealogy of the family of Jean BERTRAND and Ren?e BOUCHEREAU

G?n?alogie de la famille Jean BERTRAND et Ren?e BOUCHEREAU

but google indexes mostly the french pages
I would like to know if other webmasters have met the same
problem as me.

My web site is bilingual. It has roughly the same material and
the same presentation in French and English. I generate words
around names with a home-made software.

Because it is genealogy, names are the same in both versions. But
the text is different. However, Google is indexing only the French
version and not the English version. Both are cross-linked so a
visitor can jump to the other version, but many of them just don't
catch what "English version" means and continue to visit the French
version.
Multilingual genealogy web sites and Google - Google Groups

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I use the blog this button many times a day
even though it badly needs an update

optimising for google

I often compare source
and wrote this open email to news@individual.net

bad web design

please forward to your webmaster


www.individual.net/
does not do well in google searches


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+www.individual.net&btnG=Google+Search


Find web pages that link to www.individual.net
of about 87 linking to www.individual.net/

I have just added a couple of blogs

but your page design and content is really amateurish

viewing source shows clueless meta tags

compare with http://www.rootsweb.com/

<.title>RootsWeb.com Home Page<.TITLE>RootsWeb.com Home Page
<.META NAME="author" CONTENT="Nancy Beach">
<.META NAME="description" CONTENT="RootsWeb - the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource with searchable databases, free Web space, mailing lists, message boards, and more.">
<.META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="genealogy, WorldConnect, ancestry, World Connect, GEDCOM, Free, homepages, Social Security Death Index, mailing lists, message boards, search engine, databases, Web sites, websites, archives, ancestors, geneology">
<.BASE HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/ ">
<.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

which does very well in Google

RootsWeb.com Home PageRootsWeb - the Internet's oldest and largest
FREE genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource
with searchable databases, free Web space, ...
www.rootsweb.com/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

Search Family Trees - WorldConnect Project
Social Security Death Index
More results from www.rootsweb.com »

note how google quotes the meta tag

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rootsweb&btnG=Google+Search


=000000000000

http://news.individual.net/


<.head>
<.meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<.link rel="stylesheet" href="/individual.css">
<.link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<.title>News.Individual.NET » Welcome to News.Individual.NET
<./head>

(nb the fullstop in <. is because the wysiwyg blogger editor fails to render chevrons correctly as symbols not tags )



http://news.individual.de/
is just as bad



I have paid my 10 euros now that sunsite.dk usenet has become more restricted

(old id log on to cis berlin failed so have a new ID )

I hope my danish bank does not charge more than10 euro for making the payment


sincerely

Hugh W

--
SNAPS http://slim2005.blogspot.com/

GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/

wb design for google optimisation

please forward to your webmaster

an open letter to
www.individual.net/

does not do well in google searches

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+www.individual.net&btnG=Google+Search

Find web pages that link to www.individual.net of about 87 linking to www.individual.net/

I have just added a couple of blogs
but your page design and content is really amateurish
viewing source shows clueless mate tags
compare with http://www.rootsweb.com/

EG much better
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/">

which does well in Google

RootsWeb.com Home PageRootsWeb - the Internet's oldest and largest FREE genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource with searchable databases, free Web space, ...www.rootsweb.com/ - 15k - Cached -

Similar pages
Search Family Trees - WorldConnect ProjectSocial Security Death IndexMore results from www.rootsweb.com » note how google quotes the meta tag
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rootsweb&btnG=Google+Search

=000000000000

http://news.individual.net/

http://news.individual.de/is just as bad

I have paid my 10 euros now that sunsite.dk usenet has become more restricted
(old id log on failed so have a new ID )

I hope my danish bank does not charge more than 10 euro for making the payment

sincerely

Hugh W

-- SNAPS http://slim2005.blogspot.com/
GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/