Magento SEO question

[mhenze]

Hello Moz Community,

I am wondering if these magento settings are correct for seo.

• www.domain.com 301 > www.domain.com/main-language
• www.domain.com/main-language/main-keyword (index & follow)
• www.domain.com/main-language/main-keyword/shopby/size-m (index & follow & canonicalized to www.domain.com/main-language/main-keyword)
• All layered navigation links are no-follow

[DmitriiK]

Make sure then that whatever backlink building you do, it'd be for domain.com/language, not just domain.com

[mhenze]

Hi Dmitrii,

Thank you for answering.
I'll try to explain why these settings are like this.

www.domain.com is a magento shop and the setting "Add Store Code to Urls" is set to yes.
This means my storecodes (which are the languages) are like this:

www.domain.com/ned (Dutch, default)
www.domain.com/eng (English)
www.domain.com/deu (German)
www.domain.com/fra (French)

To avoid double content between www.domain.com and www.domain.com/ned we use a rewrite rule from "/" to "/ned" in the nginx server settings.

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

These settings are surely weird, especially first one. Your main domain should be main language and the rest should be linked with hreflang. Therefore #2 and #3 would change. Also navigation links, since they are internal, don't matter if they are follow or nofollow in terms of ranking boost, however, you might be cutting off your inside pages from search engine crawlers, which could lead to indexation problems.

Hope this helps.