Content parity on a multilingual clinic website

On most clinic websites the English site is a shrunken copy of the Turkish one. Yet the visitor arriving from the target market is the one who needs the most information.

What parity actually means

Parity does not mean translating every page one to one. It means the information a patient in the target market needs in order to decide is complete.

  • A full page for the top three treatments
  • Process, duration and follow-up detail
  • Travel, accommodation and companion detail
  • Contact routes explained against the target market time zone
  • Attention to promotion rules that differ by destination country

Sequencing

Rather than translating everything at once, start with the three treatments that already generate enquiries. One complete page beats ten half pages.

The technical side

Reciprocal hreflang, a self-referencing canonical per language and a language switcher that lands on the equivalent page are the baseline requirements of a multilingual site.

The takeaway

Depth before breadth. Full parity on three treatments produces more enquiries than half parity on ten.

Depth before breadth. Full parity on three treatments produces more enquiries than half parity on ten.

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