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    <p>Don't rely on what the search engine may do in this regard. You want <em>all</em> versions to be crawled. To achieve that:</p> <ul> <li>Have different URLs for the different language versions. </li> <li>Make sure the search engines can find the different versions.</li> </ul> <p>Overall, I believe that the way I did it on <a href="http://www.brazzy.de/" rel="nofollow">my homepage</a> is close to ideal in regard to both search engines and regular users:</p> <ul> <li>When a user arrives at, e.g. brazzy.de/index.php, the site tries to determine the language from cookie (if present) or browser settings (Accept-language header), defaults to English, and does not redirect</li> <li>Every page has links to the different language versions of that page (IMO the most important factor for user convenience, and also makes sure search engines can easily find the different versions).</li> <li>These links lead to e.g. brazzy.de/en/index.php, which is in my case rewritten to brazzy.de/index.php?lang=en - this ensures that search engines see distinct URLs for the different language versions.</li> <li>Visiting such a subdirectory sets the language cookie to that language</li> <li>The pages without a language-specific URL (i.e. where the language depends on client data) use e.g. <code>&lt;link rel="canonical" href="/en/"&gt;</code> to tell the search engine at which language-specific URL that page can be found.</li> <li>Use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps" rel="nofollow">XML sitemaps</a> to further make sure search engines can find all pages and all different language versions.</li> </ul>
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