Multisite Multilanguage and SEO

  • ilfungo

    (@ilfungo)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi my customer had a site http://www.site.com . And suddenly wanted to make it multilanguages. I decided to make site.com as network maintainence, ita.site.com as the site in Italian and eng.site.com as the site in English. I transform the http://www.site.com in site.com and I start to work. As all the search engines results at the biginning will go to http://www.site.com (as it is the old main site) I thought to make a 301 redirect from http://www.site.com/pages to ita.site.com/pages. But I am not sure. Should I just use the site.com/pages without redirect as the Italian site, eng.site.com/pages ad the English site and forget about ita.site.com/pages?
    Looking for the smoothest migration. Any suggestion?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    What language is the current site in? I would redirect to the same language version. The other will need to be discovered on its own merits.

    If the current site is mixed language, ideally individual pages would be redirected to their respective language version. To do so effectively, there’d need to be some way for .htaccess directives to be able to discern the difference.

    Thread Starter ilfungo

    (@ilfungo)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    The actual site is in Italian. If I decide to use ita.site.com the redirect will be on this site. However this is not the point to me, the point is shoud I just keep using the site.com for Italian or does it make sense to redirect it to ita.site.it? My concern is mainly about search engine pages.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Use whichever domain would be most meaningful to your potential user base. When you 301 redirect to a new domain, whatever SEO juice belonged to the page should be transferred to the new page.

    antalyaavukat

    (@antalyaavukat)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    This thread also solved a problem on my site, thanks.

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