Prettifying My Google Blog
In a post I wrote on July 8th, "Decorating My Google Blog Design" I mentioned adding a Korean-English toggle button to my blog.
Within a single post, clicking [Read in English] or [한글로 읽기] would switch the content between the two languages, letting both live in one post.
But this feature, which I thought would be convenient, kept causing problems.
Just deleting one blank line at the bottom would somehow wipe out the entire English translation I'd worked hard on — this kept happening over and over.
Having to restore and re-upload it each time got tedious.
Then I did some searching and found out that mixing two languages in a single post is bad for Google SEO. Search bots have trouble identifying the primary language, so it's better to write separate English and Korean posts and link them to each other.
I also learned that putting a summary of the post content into the [Description] field helps SEO — something I'd never done before. I'll make sure to add it going forward.
Also, I've realized that having images makes a blog nicer to look at when you first arrive, and having images between sections of text while reading gives a nice sense of rest. So from now on, I'm planning to add a photo to every post — I think using my own landscape or plant photos I've taken will work well.
🪄 Written by Soosoo, translated by Claude
Within a single post, clicking [Read in English] or [한글로 읽기] would switch the content between the two languages, letting both live in one post.
But this feature, which I thought would be convenient, kept causing problems.
Just deleting one blank line at the bottom would somehow wipe out the entire English translation I'd worked hard on — this kept happening over and over.
Having to restore and re-upload it each time got tedious.
Then I did some searching and found out that mixing two languages in a single post is bad for Google SEO. Search bots have trouble identifying the primary language, so it's better to write separate English and Korean posts and link them to each other.
Luckily, I hadn't posted many entries with the toggle button yet, so I was able to clean it up quickly.
I split the English posts out into their own separate posts. I'd originally published them with today's date, but then I remembered you can actually change the publish date, so I went back and fixed them to match the dates of the corresponding Korean posts.
Also, I've realized that having images makes a blog nicer to look at when you first arrive, and having images between sections of text while reading gives a nice sense of rest. So from now on, I'm planning to add a photo to every post — I think using my own landscape or plant photos I've taken will work well.
🪄 Written by Soosoo, translated by Claude
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