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George, i've build websites in 3 different languages and without any of the discribed errors. Each language gets its own title, own description and own content. Did you handcode everything of did you use a CMS to build the site? Since every language has its own folder I can imagine that every language has its own file to. If that is not the case then i would suggest looking into CMS systems that enable this way of building up websites. hope this helps some. kind regards Jarno

Well I have to ask, why are they https, if you can get to the same page using http, do they need to be secure or not? having 2 versions will cause them to gain links to both and split the rank. I would force https if it is needed, i would only 301 if you know that there are links pointed to the un-wanted version.