How to make a website in Hindi (2026)

Choose Hindi-only, bilingual, or Hinglish

Hindi-only suits businesses whose customers are entirely Hindi-speaking: a tiffin service in Lucknow, a coaching centre in Patna, a mandir trust. Bilingual (Hindi plus English) suits most shops, clinics and services in north and central India, where customers read menus in Hindi and WhatsApp in Hinglish. Hinglish (Hindi words in Roman script) is what most people actually type into Google, and it belongs in your keywords even when the page is in Devanagari.

Rule of thumb: write the page in the script your customers read, and target the keywords in the script they type. These are often different.

Use Unicode and a Devanagari web font that renders everywhere

Type in Unicode Hindi, never in legacy fonts like Kruti Dev or DevLys; those look like gibberish on any device that lacks the font and are invisible to Google. For the website font, pick a Google Font with full Devanagari support and matched Latin glyphs so bilingual lines look consistent: Noto Sans Devanagari, Mukta, Hind, Poppins (has Devanagari), Tiro Devanagari Hindi for headings, or Baloo 2 for a friendlier look.

• Set the font size slightly larger than you would for English; Devanagari matras need room, 17 to 18 px body text is comfortable.
• Test on a budget Android with the system font restricted; conjuncts like क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ and the chandrabindu should render cleanly.
• Load only the weights you use; Devanagari font files are larger than Latin ones and slow pages on 4G.

Write for Hindi readers: translate meaning, not sentences

Machine-translated Hindi reads like a government form. Write the Hindi version from the customer's point of view, in the register your customers use (आप, not तू; short sentences; common words over Sanskritised ones). Where customers use an English word in daily speech (AC, laptop, dentist, membership), keep it in Roman or Devanagari transliteration (मेंबरशिप) rather than inventing a pure-Hindi term nobody searches for.

Transliteration vs translation: brand names, product names and technical terms are usually transliterated into Devanagari; descriptions, benefits and calls to action are translated. Both scripts of a key phrase can sit on the page naturally ("AC repair / एसी रिपेयर").

Research Hindi and Hinglish keywords

Open Google on a phone, type your service in Hinglish and note the autocomplete suggestions; do the same in Devanagari using Gboard. Check Google Search Console if you already have a site: you will often find Hindi and Hinglish queries already bringing impressions. Add the top phrases to page titles, headings and the first paragraph in the script they are searched in. Use the meta title generator for structure, then rewrite the words in Hindi.

Keep a mix: "बिजली मिस्त्री इंदौर" for Devanagari searchers, "electrician indore near me" for Hinglish and English ones.

Structure the URLs and set language tags correctly

For a bilingual site, put each language in its own folder: yoursite.in/ for English and yoursite.in/hi/ for Hindi (or the reverse if Hindi is primary). Keep page slugs in Roman letters (yoursite.in/hi/services) rather than Devanagari URLs, which turn into long encoded strings when shared on WhatsApp. On every page set the HTML lang attribute (hi for Hindi, en-IN for English) and add hreflang tags pointing to the matching page in the other language plus an x-default.

Do not mix languages on one page as a "translation" with a JavaScript toggle only; Google indexes the page in whichever language it sees first. Separate URLs per language is the approach Google documents and the one that ranks. Neweb's multilingual setup creates the /hi/ pages, lang and hreflang tags automatically.

Set up Hindi typing and content tools

On a phone, Gboard with Hindi (both Devanagari and transliteration modes) is the fastest way to write content; dictate with Google voice typing in Hindi for first drafts. On a computer, enable the Hindi phonetic keyboard in Windows or macOS, or use Google Input Tools in Chrome. Keep a glossary of your transliterated terms so "membership" is always मेंबरशिप and not three spellings across the site. Compress Hindi-labelled images with the image compressor and add alt text in Hindi for Hindi pages.

Understand how Google handles Hindi pages

Google indexes Devanagari fully and matches Hinglish queries to Hindi content reasonably well, but it still relies on the lang attribute and hreflang to decide which version to show to whom. A searcher with a Hindi-language phone and a Hindi query is far more likely to see your /hi/ page. Hindi voice search is large on budget phones, so natural spoken phrasing in headings ("कानपुर में सबसे सस्ता टिफिन") helps.

Add LocalBusiness schema with the schema generator on both language versions, and write your Google Business Profile description in Hindi too if your customers are Hindi-first; the profile supports it, and reviews in Hindi count. Our local SEO guide covers vernacular keywords in more depth.

Test, launch and keep both languages in sync

Before launch, open every Hindi page on a budget Android over mobile data: check font rendering, line breaks on long words, and that buttons still fit. Confirm the lang and hreflang tags validate (any hreflang checker will do). After launch, submit both language sitemaps to Search Console. Set a rule that any change to a service, price or hour is made in both languages the same day; a bilingual site where the Hindi prices are a year old loses the trust it was built to earn.