The default language of my site is german and I have added english as second language. After adding a new page in german the page becomes available via two urls. When accessing the first url (www.example.com/node/16) the whole interface and also the content is german. But the same node is also available via a second url (www.example.com/en/node/16). In this case the site language (interface) is english but the content is german. In my opinion the access to this page shouldn't be possible or should be redirected to the first url. In my case the second urls where spidered by google which is bad for the users. When they access the second url they are wondering about the language mix. Also for seo reasons this is an issue because the page could be counted as duplicate content

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eiland’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.2 » 6.x-1.7

Yeah, and also the translation interface pages are going into google :(

See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=uithangvlag

Ideally, the google user agent would only see the translated content in its language own interface....

eiland’s picture

Title: Language mix in content and interface / Duplicate content problem » Add noindex to translate interface
Category: bug » feature
Jose Reyero’s picture

Component: Code » Blocks
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Cleaning up the issue tracker. Closing all issues that haven't got any follow up for the last year (and are not on RTBC state). Feel free to reopen if you're willing to (really) work on this.

eiland’s picture

Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

Can't it be done with robots. txt:

Disallow: /node/*/translate
Disallow: /*/node/*/translate
joseph.olstad’s picture

Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

This might still be an issue in node translation.

However if you upgrade to entity translation, using entity_translation_upgrade and the title module this will no longer be an issue.

First you'd have to upgrade to Drupal 7.x or 8.x