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    • RoxBrock
      RoxBrock last edited by

      I currently have the Spanish version of my site under myurl.com/es/

      When I was at Pubcon in Vegas last year a panel reviewed my site and said the Spanish version should be in /mx/ rather than /es/ since es is for Spain only and my site is for Mexico only.

      Today while trying to find information on the web I found /es-mx/ as a possibility.

      I am changing my site and was planning to change to /mx/ but want confirmation on the correct way to do this.

      Does anyone have a link to Google documentation that will tell me for sure what to use here? The documentation I read led me to the /es/ but I cannot find that now.

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      • Philip-DiPatrizio
        Philip-DiPatrizio last edited by

        Here's the Google documentation on multilingual and multi-regional websites: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en

        You will also want to read up on hreflang here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

        I would personally go with example.com/mx

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        • RoxBrock
          RoxBrock last edited by

          Thanks much!

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