{"id":574,"date":"2026-10-02T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/en\/why-your-website-should-be-multilingual\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:04:13","slug":"why-your-website-should-be-multilingual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/why-your-website-should-be-multilingual\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Website Should Speak More Than One Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over half of all internet users browse in a language other than English. If your site speaks only one language, you are invisible to most of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three real benefits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>More traffic<\/strong> \u2014 each language gets its own URLs that search engines can index.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Better SEO<\/strong> \u2014 hreflang tags tell Google which version to show to whom.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>More sales<\/strong> \u2014 visitors trust and buy from sites in their own language.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open the page source of this post and search for <code>hreflang<\/code>: you will find one link for every language version.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people prefer to buy and read in their own language. A multilingual site reaches them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[265,277,271],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-multilingual","tag-tips","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapekode.com\/product\/shapetranslate-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}