Canonical Homepage Multi-language Website

[X-com_Maasbree]

Hello,

Our development department is building a multi-language webshop.
Due to the multi-language module that they've used, we have example.com and example.com/nl having exactly the same content.

In order to avoid duplicate content, those pages have the following canonicals:
1. example.com -> Canonical to example.com/nl
2. example.com/nl -> Canonical to example.com/nl

Do I loose SEO-value by not canonicalising directly to the root-domain homepage (example.com)?

[Rajesh.Prajapati]

You don't need to change canonical for both sites. You should use simply like this -
1. example.com -> Canonical to example.com
2. example.com/nl -> Canonical to example.com/nl

But you need to add alternate tags for all language sites.

[katemorris]

Is your content in Dutch? If it is and / and /nl are the same, why not redirect /nl to /?

[jasongmcmahon]

You should only need example.com -> Canonical to example.com/nl