If you serve an international audience, having a multilingual site can help you reach your target markets. This guide shows you how to build your NOTIF.cms site in multiple languages.
If your business or service addresses an international audience, you’ll quickly find that having a multilingual website increases your ability to reach your target markets. Rather than reproducing your website in various languages. NOTIF.cms has your back with a quicker way to create a multilingual website that will appeal to your site visitors wherever they may be.
Before you begin, plan and translate your content
Before you start building pages in NOTIF.cms, create content in your main language and prepare translated versions. NOTIF.cms has tools to organize and design your site (you can even duplicatepages for a consistent layout), but we don't provide language translation services.
We recommend preparing an outline of your navigation first. Planning your site's structure now will save time when you create it in NOTIF.cms.
Basic structure for multilingual sites
While a site's structure varies by template, content, and taste, all multilingual NOTIF.cms sites generally follow this formula:
1.Cover Page set as the site's homepage (in Not Linked)
2.Index Page or Folder in the first language (in Main Navigation)
3.Index Page or Folder in the second language (in Main Navigation)
SEO for multilingual sites
Presenting your content in multiple languages can affect your site's SEO. Google Webmaster Tools and Moz have tips on keeping your multilingual site search engine-friendly.
Best templates for multilingual sites
A few templates work especially well for multilingual sites. Review our examples and pick one you like. Click Page Structure to open a preview of the site's Pages panel.
Multilingual SEO Tips
Below you will find some tips on optimizing a multilingual site so that it will be found in search results for multiple languages. The instructions refer to a bilingual site, but also apply to sites with three or more languages.
- Choose one language as the main language.
- Use one language per page
- Link each corresponding page instead of having one universal link.
- Add external links to other websites in the same language only.
- Create separate sites for each language.