The problem
The store sells feng shui and spiritual products and runs the whole site twice, once in Chinese and once in English. Multilingual sites are their own indexing problem: Google has to crawl and keep two full copies, and it is easy for one language to lag far behind the other. Both versions needed to be in the index, not just the main one.
What I did
- Pulled every URL from Search Console and split it by language folder to see each version’s status
- Submitted the product and article pages in both languages, tracking them separately
- Watched for the common failure where one language indexes and the other stalls
- Built a per-URL ledger covering both versions so the client can compare at a glance
- Reached 318 of 324 indexed, 98 percent, across both languages
bilingual ledger (excerpt)feb 2026
/en/collections/storeindexed
/zh/collections/storeindexed
/en/blogs/guidesindexed
/zh/blogs/guidessubmitted
/en/pages/aboutindexed
On the record
- 324 URLs tracked across the Chinese and English versions
- 318 indexed at last snapshot, 98 percent
- Indexed across both language folders, not just one
- Product and article pages submitted and tracked per language