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Multilingual without duplicate content
Offer your site in multiple languages, with a dedicated menu and footer per language and an automatic language button.
Serve your visitors in their own language. With Obelisk you offer your website in multiple languages — this site itself exists fully in Dutch and English. Every language gets its own menu, footer and pages, so the translation is right everywhere, down to the buttons.
Never duplicate or mismatched content
Lists such as the knowledge base and the blocks overview automatically show only the content in the page's language. Dutch and English articles are linked as each other's translation; search engines receive that link automatically (hreflang), so Google visitors land on the right language version straight away. The 404 page exists per language too.
Switch with one click
The language button automatically shows all available languages of the site — add a third language later and it appears by itself. The visitor switches with one click and keeps reading in the chosen language.
Example
The language button below is live — the same one as in the top-right menu. Click NL and you read this site in Dutch:
The prompt for this example
Add English as a second language, translate the site and put a language button in the menu.