Customers search in both languages
An Indian business often serves people who read English and people who are more comfortable in Hindi. A salon might get searches in one language and WhatsApp messages in the other. It is natural to ask whether one website can serve both without confusing Google. Google's guidance for multilingual sites says yes, and it describes how.
Give each language its own address
Google recommends using different URLs for each language version of a page, instead of using cookies or browser settings to change the language on the same address. For example, your English page and your Hindi page should each have their own web address. Google explains that its crawler usually crawls from the USA and does not ask for a particular language, so a page that switches language invisibly can hide a version from it.
Let the visitor choose
Google advises avoiding automatic redirects based on a visitor's assumed language. Instead, show clear links to the other language version, such as a small "English | हिन्दी" switch at the top of each page, so people can pick. A visitor in Indore might be an English reader on a Hindi-language phone, and a redirect would send them the wrong way.
One language per page
Google says it works out a page's language from the visible content, not from code settings such as lang attributes, or from the address. So keep each page's text and navigation in one language, and avoid putting two translations side by side on the same page. A Hindi page with an English menu is workable, but a page that mixes both in every paragraph makes it harder for people and for Google.
Translate the real content
Google warns against translating only the boilerplate, meaning the menus, headers and footers, while leaving the main content in one language. That creates a poor experience when the same content turns up under pages in different languages. Translate the parts customers actually read: services, prices, opening hours, address, and FAQs. Check names, times and prices in both versions, because a mismatch costs trust.
For your web developer
Google supports labelling language versions of a page with hreflang annotations and in sitemaps. This is a technical step, so ask whoever built your site to add it. Then run a final check: open both versions on a phone, switch between them with the visible link, and confirm that both show the same address, phone number and hours.
List your five most important pages and check each has an English and a Hindi version at its own address.
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