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Hi Juan, Nope, there is no problem in uploading several sitemaps and/or index of sitemaps. I haven't either found anyone that said anything about that. Best Luck! GR.

HI Juan, It's a bad thing. Will's and Bryan's responses are great. My personal experience provides another side to this. Years ago I ran an ecommerce site in a smaller market. Business was good, and then I started getting these random emails about orders that I could not find any record of. I spent literally hours going through documents and the database trying to figure out what was going on and came to the conclusion I was getting trolled. But these people were insistent they just wouldn't let up, I was stealing from them and they were threatening me with lawsuits and what not. About a month after this started I found the problem, 2 copy cat websites had popped up and copied some of my content word for word, markup for markup, resulting in pages on their site with links to "my contact page". Turns out the people did have an order they were just complaining to the wrong company. Though I did convert a couple of these people into customers, the time I spent looking up erroneous orders and responding to emails made it a bad experience. My thoughts, Don

I agree. Never automatically redirect, but rather ask users what language they prefer and set a cookie.

"Spanish Language but Google crawls it on English" I think this is a problem. Google should have both Spanish and English versions crawled and indexed, and then you redirect to their new respective versions. I'd say redirect english -> english, spanish -> spanish and work to resolve the larger issue.

I understand your answer. I will monitor the coming months as all advances. Rand thank you very much!

Thanks. IP base redirection is many times inaccurate. The IP address is perfect, especially in regions like Europe. IN addition to that, immediate IP based redirection does not allow Google to crawl other country content as Google bot only crawls with a US IP address. As for hreflang, given your answers, it's not of use to you because either you are targeting countries without multiple languages or don't have the means to translate everything. OR your business is best for geo-targeting only (different product offerings, etc) and are not focusing on countries with more than one official language. hreflang is only intended for use between pages of the exact same content that have been translated. If your products change or there is something else different and that depends on the country, geo-targeting is needed. Since that content changes and there are not multiple languages needed for each country, you do not need hreflang. Based on your business, or your answers in that tool, you should either launch ccTLDs or use the main domain and use country based subfolders. domain.com/es (Spain) domain.com/mx (Mexico) A ccTLD (.com.mx) is a strong signal for targeting to that country, but it is a brand new domain, and totally separate from other domains. This means you have to work harder to build up both domains, but given the right amount of work and dedication, these will be a stronger signal of targeting that country. That's why top companies pick those. However, if you want to utilize the strength of your current gTLD (which I assume is generic ie .com, .net - not country focused), a folder structure that is based on country will allow you to use the strength of the main domain. You will need to ensure each subfolder is claimed in Google and Bing Webmaster Tools and geo-targeted. The ccTLDs do this automatically but subfolders have to be set up manually if they are targeting a country. I hope this helps!

So glad I could help!

I don't know that it much matters. The localization signal from just the ccTLD is not terribly strong but it should be the same for both the older .com.xx as well as the newer .xx For purely aesthetic reasons I would choose .xx