Language Selection Splash Page- Impact on SEO

[jfmonfette]

Hi,

Our site has a page for new visitors to select their language to view our website So if you type our brand adress (http://www.bdc.ca) you should be redirected to this "splash" page (http://www.bdc.ca/pages/splashpage.aspx).

What is the SEO impact of doing this and is there a better way for users to choose their languages, SEO-wise (and UX wise) ?

You'll also see that after the visitor select its language, he's redirected to the actual home page using a two 302 redirects ( one to bdc.ca/en/ and then another one to the actual home page).  I am aware of this and I know this is really bad.

Please share what you think would be the best way to manage this language selection in respect to SEO, but with respect to UX too.

Thanks !

Jean-François Monfette

[smarties954]

The 302 redirection is not great after you selected the language, do you really need to do that?

You could use a modal popup like jquery UI has, this will avoid some back and forth to your splash page.