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Old July 27th, 2010, 07:45 AM
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I am translating my site to multiple languages and the text is fed from a MySQL Db. Currently the 'special characters' such as É,Ó,Ç etc are stored as "&Ccedil" etc. and passed through to my webpage in that format.

Will leaving the characters as "&Ccedil" have any negative impact on Google ranking? Should I convert the text to show them without the encoding?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi,
I am translating my site to multiple languages and the text is fed from a MySQL Db. Currently the 'special characters' such as É,Ó,Ç etc are stored as "&Ccedil" etc. and passed through to my webpage in that format.

Will leaving the characters as "&Ccedil" have any negative impact on Google ranking? Should I convert the text to show them without the encoding?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!


Although it may effect your click-thru rate it will not likely influence where you are ranked. This happens a lot.. where Google misinterprets some common characters.. unless you have a ton of these, you shouldn't see negative effects. Before I say one way or the other though, how often is strings coming up like "&Ccedil" ??
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Although it may effect your click-thru rate it will not likely influence where you are ranked. This happens a lot.. where Google misinterprets some common characters.. unless you have a ton of these, you shouldn't see negative effects. Before I say one way or the other though, how often is strings coming up like "&Ccedil" ??

Not loads, I would say maybe 6 or 7 per page. It's not a huge issue to convert them so if there is a chance that is will have a negative affect on anything, I'll make the change.
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