What is Multilingual SEO?

Multilingual SEO is optimization that makes a site in several languages show up in its own language in each country's search engines and AI answers.

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The basics are separate URLs per language (/en/, /ja/, /zh-tw/) with hreflang, a title, description and H1 for each language, body text written with local keywords, and structured data per language.

Pages that were only machine-translated don't match local search terms and don't rank well. Measure AI answers separately for each language to see which language is weak.

How MAKE Marketing uses it

MAKE Marketing builds English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese websites and measures AI mention rates by language with MAKE AI.

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