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Hi There I would question if that's the best setup/solution for an architecture issue? What's the issue exactly? Google might index the hello.html page, but you also risk confusing Google. How many URLs are being redirect / canonicolized in this manner? Are we talking about 10 or 100's? I take it Google has not indexed any hello.html URLs yet? How long have they been live and accessible?

Hi Andy, thanks for your help. Sorry I should I have been more clear with my question- We basically have the following sites set up as subdirectories: example.com/ae (United Arab Emirates) example.com/sa (Saudi Arabia) example.com/om(Oman) example.com/qa(Qatar) example.com/bh(Bahrain) example.com (International - not country specific) ae, sa, om, qa, bh are country identifiers language identifies are "en" for english and "ar" for arabic. (The English and Arabic URL for each country is currently the same) Using these identifiers above should I make the country website URLs as follows ?: example.com/ae-en (UAE English) example.com/ae-ar(UAE Arabic) example.com/sa-en(Saudi Arabia English) example.com/sa-ar(Saudi Arabia Arabic) ... etc for the country sites and example.com for the (International  site) example.com/ar for the (International Arabic Site)