Posted by emattias on October 16, 2007 at 9:22pm
If you and have the transliteration on with pathauto so that when it creates paths to content it replaces foreign characters like ä and ö with a and o. But you can also have it translate ä to ae and ö to oe. What does google prefer?
My only theory is that is that it's more likely that it interprets (or porhaps will in the future) ae as ä, but it can't interpret a as ä. Or will the extra letters that ae versus just a screw it up even more, seo wise..?
What's are your recommendations/experiences?
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Take a look at following
Take a look at following search query:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%...
Dmoz has äöü in its URLs and google recognises them well. However most browsers don't display them properly so I'd say that from a pure seo point öüä in the url is good but as most people wont see a human readable url there you would have some disadvantage for the user - at least until these urls are well supported by all browsers.
Sebastian