Multilingual SEO tips to follow

A good SEO strategy can ignite your exposure on Google by honouring a top position amongst searching results. Even though grasping basic principles definitely helps you enjoy countless benefits, there are certain aspects you need to tackle when your expectations extend to an international level.

If you want to use hyphenation in your text, make sure that you either use the “automatic hyphenation” function or insert an optional hyphen manually.

Lora Carson, join CEO, Translating Company

Standard hyphens are recognized as normal characters and add an additional character to the word in which they are placed. On the one hand this means that the translation unit stored in the translation memory will not be a 100% match even if exactly the same sentence appears again without hyphenation. On the other hand, terminology recognition for this specific term will not work since the term is separated by an incorrect character.

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