Google incorrectly offers to "translate this page" the homepage. No issue for other pages

Google incorrectly offers to "translate this page" the homepage. No issue for other pages - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google, google-search-console, google-search, search-results to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Google incorrectly offers to "translate this page" the homepage. No issue for other pages.Problem :


First off, this is probably a duplicate of:



How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?



But the question above was posted back in 2010, things might be different in 2016.





Google shows Translate this page / Traduire cette page next to the website homepage URL (see screenshot) in SERP:



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If I hover the translate this page link that displays in the SERP, I get this link:



https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=en&u=http://www.sintelleparapharmacie.com/&prev=search


The sl = en bit most probably means that the source language is English. However, it clearly isn't.



All the other indexed pages of the website do NOT show the Translate this page / Traduire cette page suggestion, which is expected behaviour. Only the homepage has the issue.





I wrote <HTML lang='fr'> in the HTML source, and targeted the users in Google Webmaster Tools as living in France. No joy.



I used the send feedback link at the bottom of the SERP, to try and report the issue to Google. No answer received.





How can I either:




  • programmatically tell Google not to suggest to translate French into French in SERP, or:


  • report this issue to Google?






EDIT below: screenshot obtained after clicking the "traduire cette page" link (see comments after GDav's post)



Google translates French into French



As you can see, "rides marquées", which is French for "deep wrinkles", is seen as English. Google translate "rides" as "manèges" (like at the fun fair); it sees the French adjective "marquées" as the English noun "marquees", and translates it as "chapiteaux" (large tents)


Solution :

Interestingly, while I get the same "Traduire cette page" link from google.fr, on visiting the page (my browser is set to British English) Chrome tells me the page is in French and offers to translate it.



The browser function allows you to report errors.



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I can't be sure that errors reported here will affect search results, but it's certainly worth a try:



https://translate.google.com/translate_error?client=cr&action=langidc&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sintelleparapharmacie.com%2F%23lierac&sl=fr&hl=en&key=AIzaSyBOti4mM-6x9WDnZIjIeyEU21OpBXqWBgw



For anyone else with the same problem, it looks quite easy to submit reports without triggering the browser message, too. Format seems to be: https://translate.google.com/translate_error?client=cr&action=langidc&u=[INSERT ENCODED URL HERE]&sl=[DETECTED LANGUAGE CODE]&hl=[REPORT LANGUAGE CODE]


If the issue about google, google-search-console, google-search, search-results is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.

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