Guide: multi-language website
This guide will teach you how to create another language version of your website.
Process Time: 5 min.
Difficulty: Easy.
Tell Unicorn Platform what language your main website is using.
Navigate to General settings:
Clone your website or create a new one. Populate it with content on another language. Publish it.
Set the other website's language in General settings. Same as you did it in the first step for your main website.
Now you only need to link up the language versions.
Go back to your main website's General settings and add the cloned website as a language version:
Once you select a site as a language version, the "Add a language version" button on that site will become unavailable.
That is all! Now your websites are linked.
Unicorn Platform will put meta tags to inform Google about your setup. Google will start giving search results depending on your audience geo.
Perhaps you also want to add a language selector widget? We have it 👇
[optional]
The language widget will allow your visitors to select a preferred language.
The widget can be added in Settings > Widgets:
You can add the language widget to all or some of your websites.
After changing a website's language settings, please re-activate the widget to apply the changes.
[optional]
[advanced]
There is a more precise way to tell Google about your languages set up. You can cross-link specific pages.
To link a page to its other language version, add this meta tag to the page's head section:
<link rel="alternate" href="https://de.example.com/pricing" hreflang="de" />
For example, I want to state de.unicornplatform.com/pricing as a German version or unicornplatform.com/price
Here is how:
The language widget is smart enough to look for the <link> tags you set.
A URL to another language website in the widget will be replaced to a URL to a particular page in another language. Automatically.
You can find the language codes needed for hreflang="de" here.
Q: Can I automatically detect a visitors' geo and redirect them?
A: No, because it is not recommended by Google.
Q: How many language options can I have?
A: You can add an unlimited amount of language options to your website.
Q: Which language does Unicorn Platform support?
A: Our landing page builder supports 19 most popular languages in the world. Let us know if you need a rare language and we will add it.
Q: I have "Not set" in my widget 🤔
A: If you did not set up any languages in the SEO tab and activated the widget, it will not display any languages.
Q: I do not understand...
A: Our support crew and the founder are always happy to help you with setting up your website 🙂 Just let us know in the live chat.
Process Time: 5 min.
Difficulty: Easy.
Setting up languages 🌎
Step 1/4: Set your website language
Tell Unicorn Platform what language your main website is using.
Navigate to General settings:
Step 2/4: Re-make your website in another language
Clone your website or create a new one. Populate it with content on another language. Publish it.
Step 3/4: Set the remake's language
Set the other website's language in General settings. Same as you did it in the first step for your main website.
Step 4/4: Link up the websites
Now you only need to link up the language versions.
Go back to your main website's General settings and add the cloned website as a language version:
Once you select a site as a language version, the "Add a language version" button on that site will become unavailable.
That is all! Now your websites are linked.
Unicorn Platform will put meta tags to inform Google about your setup. Google will start giving search results depending on your audience geo.
Perhaps you also want to add a language selector widget? We have it 👇
Add the languages selector widget 🇺🇸 🇩🇪
[optional]
The language widget will allow your visitors to select a preferred language.
The widget can be added in Settings > Widgets:
You can add the language widget to all or some of your websites.
After changing a website's language settings, please re-activate the widget to apply the changes.
Link pages with META tags 🔗
[optional]
[advanced]
There is a more precise way to tell Google about your languages set up. You can cross-link specific pages.
To link a page to its other language version, add this meta tag to the page's head section:
<link rel="alternate" href="https://de.example.com/pricing" hreflang="de" />
For example, I want to state de.unicornplatform.com/pricing as a German version or unicornplatform.com/price
Here is how:
The language widget is smart enough to look for the <link> tags you set.
A URL to another language website in the widget will be replaced to a URL to a particular page in another language. Automatically.
You can find the language codes needed for hreflang="de" here.
F.A.Q.
Q: Can I automatically detect a visitors' geo and redirect them?
A: No, because it is not recommended by Google.
Q: How many language options can I have?
A: You can add an unlimited amount of language options to your website.
Q: Which language does Unicorn Platform support?
A: Our landing page builder supports 19 most popular languages in the world. Let us know if you need a rare language and we will add it.
Q: I have "Not set" in my widget 🤔
A: If you did not set up any languages in the SEO tab and activated the widget, it will not display any languages.
Q: I do not understand...
A: Our support crew and the founder are always happy to help you with setting up your website 🙂 Just let us know in the live chat.
Updated on: 28/08/2024
Thank you!