Bilingual English and Chinese websites, built properly
A bilingual website serves the same pages in English and Traditional Chinese, each with its own address, and tells Google which language is which, so a Hong Kong or Taiwan customer finds your site in the language they searched in. Adding the second language to a business website typically costs US$500 – 1,200 on top of the site itself.
- Second language add-on
- US$500 – 1,200
- Business website, both languages
- from US$2,500 – 5,200
- Timeline
- 4–7 weeks
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languages taught in depth: Urdu, English, Persian
What makes a bilingual website work, rather than just translated?
Each language gets its own URL (for example /en/ and /zh-hk/), its own page titles and descriptions, and hreflang tags that link the versions together. Without them Google guesses, and a Chinese searcher can land on the English page or not find you at all.
In our 2026 study of Hong Kong small-business websites, only 31% marked their language versions this way, and 43% had an English-only homepage.
- Separate, crawlable URLs per language, never a script that swaps text in place
- hreflang for en, zh-HK and zh-TW, with a sensible default
- A language switch that keeps the visitor on the same page
- Chinese typography: system Traditional Chinese fonts, line breaks that don't split words
- Forms, emails and receipts in the visitor's language
Hong Kong Chinese or Taiwan Chinese?
Both use Traditional characters but different words: Hong Kong writes 網頁設計 and 報價, Taiwan writes 網站架設 and 費用; prices are HK$ or NT$; customers message on WhatsApp in Hong Kong and LINE in Taiwan. If you sell in both, they are two versions, not one.
Who writes the Chinese?
You or your translator supply final copy, or we prepare a draft from your English that a native speaker on your side approves. We build the site so you can edit both languages yourself afterwards. Project communication with Kodinav is in English.
What it costs
| Site | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Second language added | US$500 – 1,200 | Per-language URLs, hreflang, language switch, translated metadata |
| Bilingual business website | from US$2,500 – 5,200 | 5–10 pages in both languages, contact and WhatsApp/LINE |
| Bilingual online store | from US$4,500 – 9,200 | Products, checkout and emails in both languages |
In local currency: business websites HK$16,000 – 32,000 or NT$62,000 – 124,000 before the second language. Every project gets a fixed written quote.
Questions about bilingual websites
It can, but it reads badly and ranks worse, because Google can only match one language per page. Separate versions with a switch are better for customers and for search.
No. One domain with a folder per language (example.com/zh-hk/) is simplest and keeps all your search authority in one place.
Yes. The site is built so another language is another set of pages and an extra hreflang entry, without a rebuild.
For a business site, no. Machine translation is a fine first draft, but customers notice it, and wrong terms (網頁 versus 網站) cost trust. Have a native speaker approve the final copy.