If you have installed the jekyll-polyglot
gem, these additions to your site header can easily provide your jekyll blog with Google-powered SEO bonuses.
Per W3C Internationalization Best Practices you can set the default language of every page with a meta tag. Just add the following to your header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="{{site.active_lang}}">
You can easily add hreflang alternate tags to your site, achieving SEO with google multi-language searches. Add the following to your header:
<link rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{site.default_lang}}"
href="http://yoursite.com{{page.permalink}}" />
{% for lang in site.languages %}
{% if lang == site.default_lang %}
{% continue %}
{% endif %}
<link rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{lang}}"
href="http://yoursite.com/{{lang}}{{page.permalink}}" />
{% endfor %}
You can get all of the above with a single tag added to your header.html
:
{% I18n_Headers https://untra.github.com/polyglot %}
Just add the permanent url for your website and all of the above SEO will be added to each page in your website. In version >= 1.2.4, you can leave it empty, just calling
{% I18n_Headers %}
and it will default to your site.url
With this SEO, each page click for one sites language will count towards the net clicks of all languages on the website.