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Multilanguage SEO url structure
Hi,
I'm building a multi-language site and currently my multi-language structure looks like this:
//Home https://sayhi.dog/nl https://sayhi.dog/en
//Breed pages https://sayhi.dog/nl/hondenrassen/golden-retriever https://sayhi.dog/en/dog-breeds/golden-retriever
On my site it's possible to have a profile that can bee seen by everyone. What would be the best way to make these profile pages multi-language?
If I would use the same structure with profile pages it would look like this:
https://sayhi.dog/nl/profiel/tjeerd-korse https://sayhi.dog/nl/profile/tjeerd-korse
If I do this users who share their nl url with someone from en the en user will visit the wrong page.
What are your thoughts on this? Is there a better way?
Thanks!
#sayhidog
I'm building a multi-language site and currently my multi-language structure looks like this:
//Home https://sayhi.dog/nl https://sayhi.dog/en
//Breed pages https://sayhi.dog/nl/hondenrassen/golden-retriever https://sayhi.dog/en/dog-breeds/golden-retriever
On my site it's possible to have a profile that can bee seen by everyone. What would be the best way to make these profile pages multi-language?
If I would use the same structure with profile pages it would look like this:
https://sayhi.dog/nl/profiel/tjeerd-korse https://sayhi.dog/nl/profile/tjeerd-korse
If I do this users who share their nl url with someone from en the en user will visit the wrong page.
What are your thoughts on this? Is there a better way?
Thanks!
#sayhidog
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I think language is user specific, not URL specific. I would just guess the language + have a dropdown + store a cookie with the value.
Thanks for your reply. I already thought about that but google does not recommend that support.google.com/webmasters…. And SEO is very important for my site.
In that case you should use it in the URL, right?
Yeah I'm not sure haha this is btw an example of a profile page on my site currently sayhi.dog/profiel/tjeerd-korse. But now I'm working on a multi-language version so I'm doing some research now :)
Kinda ironic the link you share has the language in a URL parameter, which Google itself recommends against.
Yes haha already saw that :)
I think this is true for any page, correct? If I as a Dutch user visit your site and up tweeting a link, my Twitter followers will end up on a Dutch page. Correct?
I'd lean towards using a URL parameter even though Google recommends against it. The cons they explain don't include bad SEO ranking as far as I can tell. Personally, I could live with the cons. Also, since your site doesn't seem to be content-heavy and the language setting tends to refer mostly to user interface elements (I think?) I don't think it's much of an issue anyway.
I also recommend looking at how other sites have solved this. Specifically those that have a similar setup as yours. (user generated content, etc)
Currently I'm working on a v2 of sayhi.dog and it includes breed pages where a lot of content has been created (by the community). So it will be content heavy and those pages are going to be very different for several languages. It's a difficult decision but I will do some more research.
Thanks for answering Marc!