Google and other bots only crawl the shop displayed in English, not Swedish"

[Joachim Torngren]

Hello again, I have done some more testing...

 

My goal is to have a 1 language (Swedish) shop. I have 6 languages installed (for other shops). My primary concern is to ensure that Google and other bots only crawl the shop displayed in Swedish.

 

Test 1: Only Swedish enabled in Prestashop backoffice (location/languages) for this shop

Test 1A: Browsing from Sweden with Swedish browser: Swedish displayed OK

Test 1B: Browsing from US (with proxy) with English browser: Categories are displayed in Swedish. everything else is in English!!! (like product name+description, cart etc etc)

 

If I "Fetch like Google" in Webmaster Tools Google shows the shop in English (like 1B above).

 

Test 2: Both English and Swedish enabled in Prestashop backoffice (location/languages)for this shop

Test 2A: Browsing from Sweden with Swedish browser: Swedish (/se) displayed OK. English (/en) displayed OK

Test 2B: Browsing from US (with proxy) with English browser to main site: Toggle Swedish (/se) displayed OK. English (/en) displayed OK

Test 2C. Browsing from US (with proxy) with English browser to specific product page (http://www.cottonyoga.se/sv/home/12-t-shirt-bakul-i-ekologisk-bomull.html): This should be the Swedish page but it will redirect automatically to the English page!

 

If I "Fetch like Google" in Webmaster Tools Google tells me that there is a redirect to /en/!

http://www.cottonyoga.se/se/	
Submit to index
Googlebot type: Desktop
	Redirected on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 3:27:01 AM PDT
This URL redirected to:	
http://www.cottonyoga.se/en/

So it seems that neither of the above methods ensures that the shop is displayed in the preferred language (Swedish)! How can I be sure that if I submit a sitemap too Google that they will crawl the correct language?

Edited October 24, 2014 by El Patron (see edit history)

[Joachim Torngren]

OK I admit - PrestaShop is smarter than me.

 

To have a one language shop (in a multistore setting) you need to:

1. Enable the specific language and disable the others (localization/languages) for that particular shop 

2. Make the specific language the default one for that particular shop (localization/localization/configuration/default language)

 

I had failed to set the default language..

 

Problem solved!

Edited October 24, 2014 by Joachim Torngren (see edit history)