Will search engines find my translated pages?
On this page
It depends on how you install. We cannot promise rankings or traffic. Nobody can.
By install path#
- WordPress plugin, Shopify and framework kits: can give each language its own address (
/fr/) with hreflang tags. Search engines can see these as separate pages. - Script tag: swaps text in the browser on one address. Many crawlers do not see that text. Visitors benefit, search results usually do not change. See SEO and the script tag.
What we do not know#
How a given search engine treats machine-translated pages changes over time. Check the search engine's current guidance before you decide: verify. Pages that are mostly untranslated are kept out of the index by default. See Thin pages and noindex.
The full explanation is in SEO for translated pages.
Support macro#
Thanks for asking. We cannot promise rankings. What we can say is that WordPress, Shopify and the framework kits can create a separate address for each language with hreflang tags, which is what search engines need to list translated pages. The script tag changes text in the browser on one address, which helps visitors but usually not search results. Please check each search engine's current guidance too. The details: [link to this help article].