Best practice for country specific pages with localized content

[OBojahr]

Hi community,

we have the case that we have individual pages for the countries where we serve our services. But we also want to provide translations for these pages in some countries.

How would you organize the pages and build the URL structure?

Best Oliver

[TomM2]

Hey @OBojahr mutli-language content is generally handled by the CMS itself through the multiple language content feature. With this you can create one page with multiple "clones" that can have their own specific, translated content and own unique urls. You can also set them to redirect based on whos visiting. In general the url structure is pretty simple, I just keep it to a 2 letter code for each locale/language. For example I might have:

mywebsite.com/en

mywebsite.com/es

mywebsite.com/de 

and so on for multiple languages. Simplier the better really. Most of the time you don't even want the visitor to notice the url but be able to easily read and digest the content on your site! 

[OBojahr]

Thanks, @TomM2 

this is also the way we want to go, but we have a speciality. We have separate pages for certain countries and these need translations. 

e.g. we have a set of pages for Germany and for those we want to provide english versions

and we have a set of pages f0or Belgium and for those we want English, French and Dutch translations

For these use cases we ant to have some best practices how we can maintain these set of pages most efficiently and how we designe the URL scheme.

Best Oliver

[TomM2 · Accepted solution]

Hey @OBojahr this could be covered by the language switcher module within the knowlegdebase article, this would allow the user to switch between language versions of the same page for all of your pages. If you have different content in multiple languages it would make sense to give them their own urls. So something like:

Mysite.com/Germany/DE

Mysite.com/Germany/EN

and so on. How the users visit these is really down to your website, you could link them within your main menu, on a specific page or even host them on specific domains if you like. You could also use smart content on your pages to use one page and show specific content based on the visitors location. 

[OBojahr]

@TomM2 thanks so much ... this sound like the way to go!

[TomM2]

Happy to help 🙂 

[RDunphy7]

Hi @TomM2 , we're looking for a way to entirely display or hide certain pages, depending on the user's country. For example we have blog pages about features that are only available in the UK and want them to be hidden from the blog parent page if the user is outside of the UK.

Do you think we can do this with smart content?