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For example, my home page is available in several language and the language displayed depends on the browser language.

I have added these 2 alternate links:

<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/lang/en" hreflang="en"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/lang/fr" hreflang="fr"/>

Is it possible to tell search engines that the URL http://example.com is available both in English and French and the one displayed depends on the browser language?

unor
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In theory you should be able to tell Google that the same URL is available in either language depending on browser language. Google announced about 2 years ago that they would start supporting that.

In practice, I don't know of any sites that have implemented it that way and get good SEO rankings. The recommended way of having a site in multiple languages is still to have separated URLs. Both Google recommends it that way and I do in How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?

Stephen Ostermiller
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