Homepage and 301.

[jarizaro]

Hello.  A question about the home page url.

Because i'm switching my site to multiple TLDs domains.  But i can't remove my language prefix path.

I'm doing a:

Redirect 301 / /fr

in my htaccess.

Does it have disadvantages for Google eye's .

And a second question.   If i put out there links, which url will be better,  the domain ,  or the domain/fr

Thanks.

[Debdulal]

If I got it right, you want to direct the home page to /fr/ right?

http://www.example.com/ 301 to http://www.example.com/fr/

_Is the existing version of the Home page in English? In that case, I do not think it would be a great idea to redirect the home page and other associated pages to their French version.

Rather I would suggest you having a landing page for English version that will act as a landing page for English speaking countries (here I am assuming that majority of the visitors are from English speaking countries). And for the rest of the other languages, we suggest creating folder structures to target language specific audience:

http://www.example.com/es/ - Spanish
http://www.example.com/fr/ - French_

_This will also let you target audience via Webmaster Tools by setting geo targeting. _

_And I did not get the second question. Could you please explain. _

[jarizaro]

No... the main domain has name in french, the domain is a .com but is geotargeted in google master tools to france.

The only language is that site is in french, but because estructure i have to maintain the /fr in the url.