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Hi Roman,

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

All is clear and you've explained and answered my questions very well.

From my research it is best practice not to use the whole: .com/en/ .com/ru/ style of denoting languages, is this correct? Because essentially, the way I see it, the content is the same in all languages and is autotranslated, I believe from the geographical location of the user.

Would you suggest creating subdomains with hreflang mark up on each page. e.g

1. create subdomain

2. publish content and pages

3. Delete old language subfolders and redirect to the new pages?

As I want to target location and not just language.

I want to rank in both Russia and China and this is my first attempt looking at a site that is trying to do so.

Thank you,

TTT

Dear Moz community,

I am looking into two websites for a friend and we want to understand the following:

What is the site structure as per the sub domains?

e.g currently it is .com/en/ or .com/ru/ or .com/zh/

Using the crawl report, each page has a en or other language version. I take it this means that we have to create copy,  meta titles and descriptions for each of the languages even if the page is the same but in a different language? To avoid duplication of content would you suggest canonical tags to be put in place?

To check hreflang mark up, I couldn't find anything in the code which makes me thing a script is automatically translating this?

This is the first time I have started to look at international SEO and want to understand what to look for in an audit of exisiting sites.

Thank you,

Hey Gaston,

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, that makes sense to me!

All fixed now.

Yes, I agree. It was an error on the dev teams part that has now been fixed.

Thank you!

Two versions of the same page are being served at the moment. Certain pages on the site redirect to the https version whilst others don't. I am being flagged for duplicate content because of this. Is this a simple fix? As in just redirect all to the https version and set the preferred version in WMT?

Hey Forum,

I have a quick question. So I have added in my keywords to track etc and want to then add the keywords to a specific landing page how do i do that? Is it manage and track and add the keywords and URL there then they appear on the landing pages?

Thank you,