Re: Language of a web site in ASP.NET

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Sorry, wondered what the exact problem was as you talked about several
things in your first posts...

How do you perform language selection ? If you just serve content
based on the user agent language preference a robot will always see
the same language. Also keep in mind that robots are just following
hyperlinks. So if you have a way for the user to select manually the
preferred language using a postback, the robot won't detect and use
this.

AFAIK the usual solution is to check for the user agent. If this is a
robot add hyperlinks to alternate languages (possibly only on the home
page) so that the robot can follow those links and index alternate
language contents...

URL rewriting allows to expose the same page as both /mysite/fr/
page.aspx and /mysite/en/page.aspx (it makes those request be
processed as /mysite/page.aspx?lang=fr or /mysite/page.aspx?lang=en)
but it doesn't matter, a robot will still be able to index those pages
as long as it find an hyperlink.

If it looks like your site should already work, feel free to exlain
how it works regarding language selection (and if public you could
even post its url).

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Patrice

On 11 mai, 21:31, "ThunderMusic"
<NoSpAmdanlatathotmaildot...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi,
thanks for the link... but I already know how to localize an ASP.NET
application. The thing is, site indexers like the ones of Google don't try
every languages for a page, it just indexes each page with it's url and the
content it encounters on the page... so I want to know how I can do my site
so the indexers can index my site in english, in french and maybe in spanish
(maybe someday) or any other language (and can lead the user to the page in
the right language too). Someone told me I should do likewww.mysite.com/fr/pages.aspxandwww.mysite.com/en/pages.aspxbut that would
mean I have to copy my pages in 2 or 3 different directories and load
different resource files... this is an option, but I would like to avoid
it. Is there a better way to do so?

I've heard of url rewriting, but everytime I try to rewrite a URL, I end up
getting a blank page with only the basic structure of the html (<doctype
...><html><head></head><body></body></html>). Moreover, I've seen many sites
(forums and blogs) that said the URL rewriting mecanism has problems with
IIS6 and Windows 2003 because it returns a 302 instead of a 200 for
rewritten pages, which causes indexers not to index the page.

Anybody have an idea?

Thanks

ThunderMusic

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Try
http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/localization/defa...
and especially "Global and Local resources"...

Else please clarify what is the problem you have (url rewriting issue,
indexing issue ?)...

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Patrice

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Hi,
Ok, I find myself having a lot of troubles with URL Rewriting and I've
seen
on the net that in some situations, indexers have difficulty indexing
sites
because of some flaws in the url rewriting mecanism...

Does anybody have a solution to my problem? I mean, I want to be able to
localize my web site without having to dupplicate all the pages in 2-3
(fr,
en, sp(optional)) directories and so the indexers can index the right
content (in the right language) and people can bookmark the page in the
right language too. Is it something possible? I'd like to avoid
dupplicating
pages because it could mean a pain in the 'you know what' to maintain....
imagine a bug in one would have to be corrected in 3 places instead of
1...

Thanks a lot

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