Google suggesting a translation

[wgr_strategic]

Hi everybody, I notice since some months that Google when used for german language results proposes a translation next to the listing of one of my websites. When searching for english results (hl=en) it does not propose a translation! My website is clearly in german (given as target in GWMT and by meta tag). Other pages on the same domain are not treated this way by Google. No translation is proposed for all subpages of this website.

Obviously, Google considers the homepage of this website english instead of german. Any fix for that?

It is a *.org

Wolfgang

[SorinaDascalu]

Google shows the translate option because on your page you probably have several words that are in English.

A simple way to check if your homepage is also considered in German is to use the advanced search options in Google, select the in German language and do a site:-query for your site.

Since you are saying the internal pages of your website don't show this problem - think of this: do you have backlinks to your home from websites in English and not to your internal pages?

[gfiorelli1]

You're answer is substantially correct, but I remind you all that Google is not perfect and sometimes it pretend a site is in a language, which is not the one used (i.e.: sometimes it consider some Spanish sites as Portuguese or Galician or even Catalan.

That hiccup Google have may be due to browser language configuration, IPs of the site or others variants.

Sincerely I would not worry that much.

Said that, if you were able to share the domain name, that would help all of us in finding a better answer to your question.