Cookie-based i18n and search engines (SEO)

[shapova...@gmail.com]

Hi! 

I'm using multi-language method described in web2py Application Development Cookbook i.e. cookie-based. (controller retrieves saved lang preference from user's cookies and the fetches him a page from db in appropriate language).

I'm worried about search engines discovering only one language version of site's content. What do you think?

[Niphlod]

that if you need your website to be available in multiple languages even to crawlers, you choose the wrong way to do it.
Take the way of url-rewrite with the languages in the url, so you can have different uris returning different translations.
http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#URL-rewrite