How to handle subdirectories in Moz and Webmaster Tools?
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I have 3 websites:
- http://www.abc.com (English pages)
- http://www.abc.com/fr (French)
- http://www.abc.com/de (German)
Webmaster Tools
In Google Analytics: I created an Account called ABC and created 4 properties with relative filters
- ABC Default (No filter)
- ABC English (filter to exclude /fr, /de)
- ABC French (filter to include /fr)
- ABC German (filter to include /de)
In webmaster tools, I wish to add 3 sites
- How do I validate each url with Google analytics, considering I just want the specific language for folder.
- How do I validate the domain name http://www.abc.com to always ensure the inclusion of the default english data?
MOZ
- Do I need to create 3 campaigns (one per language) and if yes, again how do I handle http://www.abc.com which should exclude /fr and /de?
Thank you
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Hello!
For multi-language sites we recommend using sub-domains to completely isolate one language opposed to having a sub-folder configuration.
There isn't a way that I know of that would allow you to exclude /fr and /de which would not allow you to track them at all if they are blocked in your robots.txt file.
For both configurations you will need to create 3 campaigns.
Someone from the community may know of a workaround as there isn't one we are aware of. I will set this to a discussion and hopefully someone might be able to chime in.
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Thanks for your answer.
What is everyone else doing?
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Anyone else has any idea ?