SEOmoz PRO: How to manage a Site with 2 languages on the same domain - without mixing up data?
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I want to track a "rootdomain" that has two languages on it, the english version is in a subfolder /en/
1. http://website.de
2. http://website.de/en/I want to manage and track each language-version isolated. So I will setup:
1. http://website.de as campaign DE - german
= as Root Domain
But as there are links to the /en/ Subfolder these data will also be included in all reports. And there is still no option in SEOmoz PRO to exclude folders or even urls.?! This will be bad when wanting a clear report of just one Language Version.2. http://website.de/en as campaing EN - english
To track as "Subfolder" will not work beacause this option will only consider exactly this subfolder...So is there a way to see data just only for one language Version?
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Hi David,
thanks for your help, but unfortunately I can't influence this setup with a separate domain. So I will put my feature request.
Thank you
Holger -
Hey Holger!
This is a great question.
One of your best options is to create separate URLs for each language as recommended by Google's documentation regarding multi-regional and multilingual sites found here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192#1
example:
1. www.website.com (english)
2. www.website.de (german)This would be a lot of work and (potential) site restructuring so how viable this option is would be something you would need consider.
Another option is to create a subdomain for the english site (e.g. http://en.website.de). Once this is done, you can start a campaign for both website.de and en.website.de. This way you can isolate just the english version of the site.
The last option that I can think of would be to create a campaign for your main/originating domain. If the english subfolder is housed on that domain, we'll more than likely crawl it along with the rest of the site. To separate out the English and German content, you could just filter/remove it from an exported CSV report.
Regarding your suggestion for excluding folders and URLs, this would be an excellent feature request. I recommend submitting this in our feature request forum. Our Product team checks this daily and uses it to help plan out our roadmap for future releases and may add this in there.
Hope this helped clear things up and let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks!
David Lee
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