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    • dublinbet
      dublinbet last edited by

      What kind of structure would you propose for a site with multiple languages, subdomains or subfolders?

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      • OlegKorneitchouk
        OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

        Either one works, as long as you tell G which one you choose via rel="alternative"

        Either is fine - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multilingual-websites.html

        Mark up multilingual - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-markup-for-multilingual-content.html

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