Multi Language Redirect Issues

[PedroSaiote]

Hello everyone, this is my first post and as so let me first say, Thank you! The SEO Moz community and SeoMozPro have been giving a great help in making my workflow simpler and richer.

Lately I've been reading and learning a lot about indexation, in the process I have been making several improvements to some websites, but there is one particular that I am not able to understand. I am writing this post to ask for your help on an issue related to this website: www.dengun.com

We are a Web Agency based in Portugal and most our clients are from Portugal. We have an English version and a Portuguese version of the website.  It is setup like this:

www.dengun.com/en

www.dengun.com/pt

When the user hits www.dengun.com it redirects to /en or /pt acording to the browser language. The HTTP status code is 302, i was reading in SEOMoz that this is bad because it's not passing rank to the other pages. Will a 301 redirecting to /en and /pt according to the browsers language? What is the best solution? Thanks.

[TakeshiYoung]

The best solution from an SEO perspective would be to not redirect them, and have a landing page linking to both language versions of your site. Try to see if that would be possible without increasing your bounce rate. It may even be a better user experience, since it let's the user decide which language they want to use.

[PedroSaiote]

Hello Takeshi, thank you for your help. We want to give users the language that seems most apropriate for them, but we have buttons for users to change language.

My main question now is about how should i strucutre the urls?

[MozAddict]

Why are you using this technique, you could have done like make a landing page, ask for language selection or have a main site and show different language selections then link to that language page.

[PedroSaiote]

Hi Akram, thanks for the reply.

The website already has language buttons linking to the language page. We didn't make a landing page for the .com/ because we did not want to have one extra page that could be marked as duplicate content. Would you sugest having a landing page on the .com/ where user just selects language and does not display content?