3.13 SmartCrawl & WPML Integration
SmartCrawl’s integrations with WPML allows you to optimize the pages you have translated for search engines.
3.13.1 Translating Global Meta Text
You can translate the global title and meta values such as the home page SEO title, description, OpenGraph details, and Twitter details. Simply, go to WPML > String Translation and look up the global meta text you want to translate. Then, click the Plus icon, add the translation, and hit enter to save it.
If you are using macros, make sure you copy the default language macro text in the translation. Translating the macro text will result in breaking its functionality for the secondary language pages.
It is worth noting that you can find all the global meta text under the admin_texts_wds_onpage_options domain on the WPML String Translation screen.
3.13.2 Translating the Page Title and Meta
Smartcrawl Titles & Meta section enables you to set the SEO title, meta description, focus keyword, OpenGraph, and Twitter values for pages, posts, and custom post types.
You can translate these meta elements along with the page content using WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor. Additionally, you can set non-textual meta elements such as the indexing options to be different from those on the default language page.
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On the page or post editing screen, click on the Plus icon in the Language metabox corresponding to the language you want to translate your page into. This takes you to the Advanced Translation Editor page.
Translate the textual meta elements and the page content, then click the Complete button to save the translation.
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SmartCrawl enables you to configure indexing metatags for your pages. On a multilingual website, you might want to have different indexing options on the secondary language page than the one you have for your default language page.
To do this, go to the secondary language editing page. You will see a message warning you to edit the translated page using the standard WordPress editor. Click the Edit anyway button.
Please make sure that you don’t make any changes to the secondary language content using the default WordPress editor. These changes will get overwritten if you use the Advanced Translation editor to update the translated content.
On SmartCrawl’s Advanced tab, adjust the indexing options. Once done, Update the page to save the changes.