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Change interface language of Google webmaster

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To change your Google webmaster interface language you need to set your browser language to whatever language is you need. Of course not the browser interface language, but the Accept-Language header browser sends. So, for example, this HTTP request to Google webmaster will return a Swedish version GET /webmasters/ HTTP/1.1 Host : www.google.com Accept-Language : sv,lv;q=0.8,lv;q=0.6,lv;q=0.4,en;q=0.2 But this is going to return an English one GET /webmasters/ HTTP/1.1 Host : www.google.com Accept-Language : en,lv;q=0.8,lv;q=0.6,lv;q=0.4,en;q=0.2 Where to configure browser headers differs from browser to browser, but for chrome it is under Options->Change font and language settings. I’m not sure that showing interface language based on headers is the best solution. I think much better would be if there was an option where to switch a language, just like it is for gmail.com .

Google webmaster and other Google product interface language

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There is something that is driving me nuts about Google webmaster? It's that i can not change the interface language to English. No really, I’ve tried like a zillion times, but somehow I just can’t figure it out. In Google products I always set English as my default language. I’ve even set that I live in U.K. so that Google do not dare to offer me Latvian. But somehow webmaster is different. It knows me. It knows me deep inside. It even scares me ;D. The reason why I prefer English over Latvian is pretty simple though – when the specific words are being translated into Latvian, in most cases text become unreadable, and I constantly need to think – now what's that word would be in English. Some examples include: Noildze – delay; Rādītājs - index; Iesūtne - inbox; Rāpuļprogramma - crawler; Not only words are confusing, but in many cases translation is ambiguous too. It can easily be seen, that translator did not take context into account. And today I was exceptionally upset, be...

Everybody do SEO

These days, it's like everybody is doing SEO . Everyone is SEO expert or something. Well, it is ok if somebody is cleaning up the xHTML code and marking the important parts of semantics. But i recently discovered that there are lots of so called SEO experts who are selling information about "How to optimize web pages for search engines", they find with quick search in google itself. And then tooOrganisations who are not very familiar with IT, they sell this pdf crap for 100eur, and call it - 'SEO analysis for XYZ Inc web page'. And in the end - the document was not good written, simply copying and pasting the information about seo optimisation did not reach any of targeted goals.  Yea.. and by the way, here is the link for very good busses and vans and stuff like that HAHA Mikroautobusu noma .