Can you use English (international) as a language?

  • KingOfTheHill

    (@kingofthehill)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    I use Polylang for my multilingual website and I’m very happy with Polylang. I started with a Dutch website and thanks to Polylang, I get quite a lot of visitors from the United States.

    However, I found that I didn’t got so many visitors from other English-speaking countries, like the UK. I also found my google ranking is lower in the UK on almost every popular search querry, using Google’s Search Console. I was wondering if that could be because my website is in EN_US, and would therefore be less ideal for the United Kingdom. My content however, is about videogames and novels. It should not be more relevant to an American citizen than a UK citizen.

    I was wondering if it is possible to select English (International) as a language somehow, instead of a ‘localized’ version of the English language. In the settings of Polylang, I can only choose localized versions of the English language like EN_US and EN_UK.

    Hope someone can help me! Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Chouby

    (@chouby)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    The locale is used to determine which translations for WordPress, the plugins and your theme are loaded.

    If you have only *one* English language on your site, Polylang will tell Google to target all English speaking visitors (the hreflang value is set to “en”, whathever English locale you have selected).

    It’s only if you have two or more English languages on your site that Polylang will inform Google about the locale (the hreflang values would be “en-US” and “en-GB” if you have selected these two locales).

    Thread Starter KingOfTheHill

    (@kingofthehill)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    I see, the hreflang is indeed just ‘en’, not something like ‘en-us’. Still, the code of my website starts with <html
    lang=en-US>. I’m not sure what that means, u=but you say that should not matter for google?

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