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I am working with a clients website which has multiple htaccess files (.htaccess , .htaccess.holiding, and .htaccess.live -all in the same directory)

My question is how does a server process these files? All 3 files?

Currently the domain has 301 redirect showing for the home page to the mobile site (which is a problem) in one of the files (.htaccess but not others)

Has anyone come across this before with regard to SEO problems?

It does make a small amount of sense if you were targeting spain as a country (so a country based domain)

Translations should be fine on the same site- The best fix I can think of is to make sure the information on the spanish side (since you have created it 100% orginal) doesn't cover the exact same subjects.

At 5% traffic it doesn't make time/economical sense to create a whole new site (a question has to be asked around amount of income/sales from the 5%)

Hope that helps

I read something in Google support a while ago that stated that Google auto suggest is based on amount of people searching, which makes it show up. so best option is to employ someone or a team of people to do the same search all day long....:)