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    • alexrbrg
      alexrbrg last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      I am doing an audit of a site that currently have a lot of 500 errors due to the russian langage.

      Basically, all the url's look that way for every page in russian:

      http://www.exemple.com/ru-kg/pешения-для/food-packaging-machines/
      http://www.exemple.com/ru-kg/pешения-для/wood-flour-solutions/
      http://www.exemple.com/ru-kg/pешения-для/cellulose-solutions/

      I am wondering if this error is really caused by the server or if Google have difficulty reading the russian langage in URL's.

      Is it better to have the URL's only in english ?

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      • MikeTek
        MikeTek last edited by

        Hi Alexandre,

        Google should have no problem indexing URLs with Cyrillic characters, but it could be the mix of language that is causing Google to attempt to decode those characters.

        But even if that were the case, this should not result in a 500 error but a 404 (not found) for those resultant decoded URLs.

        It looks like there are 301 redirects in place for these URLs now, pointing to their EN counterparts - has that resolved this issue? Perhaps it was faulty redirect logic in the first place that caused the 500 errors?

        Thanks,
        Mike

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        • alexrbrg
          alexrbrg @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

          Yes exactly !

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          • OlegKorneitchouk
            OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

            I do believe the URLs are indexed (based on his url) and I know that you can use non-english characters in URLs.

            Do you get the 500 error when you fetch as google for a url?

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            • alexrbrg
              alexrbrg @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

              To give you an exemple, Google is giving 500 errors like this :

              http://www.exemple.com/ru-lt/pÐµÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ -Ð´Ð»Ñ /food-packaging-machines/

              Like if Google is translating the russian folder into a langage that he recognise

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              • OlegKorneitchouk
                OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                Add the site to Google Search Console and do "Fetch as Google" to see how they would index your pages.

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