Indexing problems

  • Resolved tempestmedia

    (@tempestmedia)


    6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello everyone, Im new to this.

    I have my page that uses Translatepress plugin and my default language is set to Croatian, the problem occurs when customers search for my company on any search engine. The Title on search engine is on Croatian, but when you enter the site, it is on English. I know this plugin is causing this problem with indexing everything. I set the canonical to the default page but man this makes me go nuts, as I have potential customers searching on Croatian but it opens the English page, the /en website.

    How do I fix this?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Support Iarina

    (@iarinadasdi)

    6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hello @tempestmedia,

    Thank you for reaching out to us!

    TranslatePress handles the translation of your site’s content, but it doesn’t directly control how search engines index or display those results. Google decides which language version to show based on factors like user location, browsing history, and how the site has been crawled and indexed over time. Search results in a particular language may sometimes rank higher. In your case, the page title and description that appear in search results are in Croatian because those fields haven’t been translated into English — Google is using the original (default language) metadata when generating the search snippet. Translating metadata such as page titles and descriptions requires additional functionality that’s available only in our premium version. Since those meta fields remain in Croatian on your site, that’s what Google detects and displays in search.

    Google decides how the results are displayed based on several criteria, and you can find more information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/search/howsearchworks/how-search-works/ranking-results/.

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