What is Language Negotiation?

The server choosing a response language from the request (path, header, cookie) — path-based being the most SEO-robust.

In more depth

Paths are explicit, cacheable and shareable; cookies and headers are invisible to crawlers.

Why it matters for your website

Understanding Language Negotiation helps you make better decisions when taking a WordPress site multilingual — from choosing URL structures and engines to controlling costs. Transxlate handles the mechanics (language URLs, lang attributes, caching, hreflang on Pro) so terms like this become settings, not engineering projects.

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