Multilingual linking

  • Resolved Johan E. Johansson

    (@johanejohansson)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    Great plugin, but I encountered a problem that is probably not a considered (but still fairly common) use case. On multilingual websites, auto linking happens across languages, which is generally a very bad thing. E.g. if one keyword is the same in German and in Dutch, the German posts may link to the Dutch posts or vice versa.

    That said, linking between language versions may be useful, but as is, it represents a problem both for SEO and users. Imagine speaking Swedish but not German, seeing a link on the Swedish website, and clicking it takes you to an incomprehensible post in German. As many European languages has similar roots, and thus many words in common, this can become a major problem.

    Is this considered a use case to be supported in the future, is there a known work around, or is it best to simply not use the plugin for this use case?

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  • Plugin Contributor Internal Links

    (@internallinkjuicer)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hello Johanejohansson,

    thank you for your appreciated feedback.

    We are already aware of the issues and the resulting problems with multilingual websites.

    For WPML the Internal Link Juicer already works. However, it is difficult to cover all possible implementations of the different plugins.

    Can you tell us which plugin you are using for internationalization? Then we would like to take a closer look at it. Maybe we can provide a quick fix or make some improvement for our future releases.

    Thread Starter Johan E. Johansson

    (@johanejohansson)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Certainly, I am using Polylang. The workaround I have at the moment is to simply use Internal Links for one language only, by blacklisting all other language taxonomies. Not a scalable solution, though.

    nicoter

    (@nicoter)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Another Polylang user here.

    Any plans to add support for Polylang to the plugin?

    Plugin Contributor Internal Links

    (@internallinkjuicer)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @nicoter

    currently, we have a lot of core improvements in our product backlog. First priority is to improve the plugins’ stability and core functions.

    Maybe we can provide a solution at the beginning of next year.

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