{"id":16609,"date":"2026-09-02T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/localized-versions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:41:35","slug":"localized-versions","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/localized-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Localised Versions and Locale-Adaptive Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google needs to be able to crawl every language version at a distinct URL. Anything that serves different content at the same URL based on the visitor makes that impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Locale-adaptive pages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serving different content at one URL depending on the visitor location or <code>Accept-Language<\/code> header. Google supports it but recommends against it: Googlebot crawls predominantly from US IPs and with a generic language header, so it will usually only ever see one version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Better approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separate URLs per language, hreflang between them, and a dismissible banner offering the visitor their likely preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ar-kb-tavsiye\"><p><strong>Alien Road recommends:<\/strong> never let language selection depend on a cookie alone. Googlebot does not carry cookies between requests, so a cookie-driven site looks like a single-language site to Search regardless of how many translations you have paid for.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serving the right language without hiding the alternatives from Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[527],"ar_kb_etiket":[654,651,653],"class_list":["post-16609","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-international","ar_kb_etiket-geotargeting","ar_kb_etiket-hreflang","ar_kb_etiket-localization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/16609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=16609"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=16609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}