Homepage and 301.
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Hello. A question about the home page url.
Because i'm switching my site to multiple TLDs domains. But i can't remove my language prefix path.
I'm doing a:
Redirect 301 / /fr
in my htaccess.
Does it have disadvantages for Google eye's .
And a second question. If i put out there links, which url will be better, the domain , or the domain/fr
Thanks.
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No... the main domain has name in french, the domain is a .com but is geotargeted in google master tools to france.
The only language is that site is in french, but because estructure i have to maintain the /fr in the url.
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If I got it right, you want to direct the home page to /fr/ right?
http://www.example.com/ 301 to http://www.example.com/fr/
_Is the existing version of the Home page in English? In that case, I do not think it would be a great idea to redirect the home page and other associated pages to their French version.
Rather I would suggest you having a landing page for English version that will act as a landing page for English speaking countries (here I am assuming that majority of the visitors are from English speaking countries). And for the rest of the other languages, we suggest creating folder structures to target language specific audience:
http://www.example.com/es/ - Spanish
http://www.example.com/fr/ - French__This will also let you target audience via Webmaster Tools by setting geo targeting. _
_And I did not get the second question. Could you please explain. _
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