Is an international redirect hurting my ranking
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We're a small international company that redirects users based on their language identifier.
I've now taken a big interest in and also how it affects ranking.When I look at my MOZ dashboard the fundedbyme.com domain has a higher ranking than fundedbyme.com/en/ for example.
Our company wants to target other markets such as Spain and Germany, I am imposing penalties on myself by not having rel="canonical" in place and redirecting to the TLD?
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If you use gLTDs as your sub-directories, you can then use WMT to set preferences.
See a further discussion here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en#2
From my understanding (as a hosting provider not a SEO), is that increasingly signals coming from on-page or WMT are far more important that server location, IP or other hosting related information. This makes sense with more and more CDNs.
You may also want to see:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/x-default-hreflang-for-international-pages.html
In terms of what to optimize that is up to you, but the important part is to give Google clues as to what pages you want ranked where/how.
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Have you thought about rel=alternative instead?
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Hi,
I've just answered a very similar issue in this Q&A.
While it is referring to GEO-location redirects I've heard of very similar issues with language redirects.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Thanks
SilverDoor
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Hiya, I dont know if this is any help? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en I think the hreflang will be preferred over using canonical.
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