Google Search Console (new GWT) - Does a language specific sub folder need its own GSC profile

[Dan-Lawrence]

HI

I've got a clients site set which targets 3 language/countries:

English via the main site on the domain.com

Turkish via a Turkish language site on a subfolder domain.com/tr/

And German via domain.de

The devs have set up .com and .de in GSC and is reporting data in both

However there's no data in the domain/com/tr GSC profile ! Is that because its on a subfolder so data pertaining to it is being reported in the main domain.com GSC account ? Or does something more need to be done to set up the Turkish subfolder in GSC ? If so what ?

All Best

Dan

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hey Gianluca

Thanks so much for commenting again (this isn't the first time you have helped me out ) !!

Any ideas how i find out what else i need to do so the GSC populates with data ? There is a profile set up in GSC for all the language versions, its just the Turkish version (the only language version in a sub-folder) is not being populated with any data so must be something missing in the set up maybe/not properly completed, such as something required for properly finish the set up/integration of a sub-folders on GSC so that it shows data.

UPDATE - I have just seen that the GSC Turkish a/c im looking at is for a www version so if the Turkish language sub sites actually non www that will explain why im not seeing any data i presume ?

Re HTTP/s  - The site was originally non secure so there is an older http profile for the main site/domain.  Re www and non www - Weirdly the Turkish version is not www but the others are all on www. This was due to some reason the devs couldn't avoid (to do with domain mapping since on WP multisite the way it works forces it to have to be on the non-www. site as that is not used for anything else, apparently). BUT all site maps and canonicals were amended to HTTPS and all indexed pages and rankings are for pages that are the correct https and (www or non www) versions and has been like this since March when it was all set up, so presume shouldn't have to do more here in the various GSC accounts if that's the case ?

Many Thanks

Dan

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks Oleg !

Yes 'links to site' is of value to me (although i do have other link tools to see this info i like to see what Google is perceiving). But ideally as much of the rest of GSC data too, such as indexed pages etc etc

There is a profile set up in GSC for all the language versions, its just the Turkish version (the only version in a sub-folder) is not being populated with any data so must be something missing in the set up maybe/not properly completed, such as something required for properly finish the set up/integration of a sub-folders on GSC so that it shows data.

Any idea as to how i fix or find out how to fix ?

Many Thanks

Dan

[gfiorelli1]

Yes, because if not you cannot geotarget the subfolders.

Rememover also to create the profile also for not www., and if you have also https, you must create also others 2 search console profiles for https://www.domain.com/es/ and https://domain.com/es/.

These are needed for telling Google your preferred domain version for indexing.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

When did you set up the /folder/ property? I've used this to get more detailed backlink reports (as the "links to site report" is different when you enter a subfolder). What data are you looking to get?