Redirecting homepage to subdirectory
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Any issues with 301 redirecting a site's homepage to the English version subdirectory? Example:
Original homepage: www.mysite.com
New homepage: www.mysite.com/en/
The site is very old and very authoritative and trusted with lots of traffic.
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Sorry don't think I replied directly to your comment... the previous site defaulted to English so every page on mysite.com was in English. The other languages were accessible via top navigation and those were/are found under mysite.com/jp/ mysite.com/aus/
The only change now is instead of having English pages on mysite.com/some-page/ they've decided to add the English subdirectory /en/ so you get mysite.com/en/ mysite.com/en/some-page/
The homepage was never a language select page because English is the most commonly requested language. I'm just wondering if adding /en/ to each page will have a negative impact to the site.
A large chunk of our links were pointing to the old homepage www.mysite.com but now our homepage is www.mysite.com/en/ (keep in mind we have thousands of linking root domains pointing to all different parts of our site and we are considered an authority)
Hope I explained that ok. Thanks.
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Hi Erica, the previous site defaulted to English so every page on mysite.com was in English. The other languages were accessible via top navigation and those were/are found under mysite.com/jp/ mysite.com/aus/
The only change now is instead of having English pages on mysite.com/some-page/ they've decided to add the English subdirectory /en/ so you get mysite.com/en/ mysite.com/en/some-page/
The homepage was never a language select page because English is the most commonly requested language. I'm just wondering if adding /en/ to each page will have a negative impact to the site.
A large chunk of our links were pointing to the old homepage www.mysite.com but now our homepage is www.mysite.com/en/ (keep in mind we have thousands of linking root domains pointing to all different parts of our site and we are considered an authority)
Hope I explained that ok. Thanks.
mysite.com/en/ and
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Will you not be using the site's homepage to direct people to all the different languages that the site will be or has been translated to?
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