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Due to the architecture of our site, we have a bunch of URLs that are 302 redirected to the same URL plus a query string appended to it.

For example:

www.example.com/hello.html is 302 redirected to www.example.com/hello.html?___store=abc

The www.example.com/hello.html?___store=abc page also has a link canonical tag to www.example.com/hello.html

In the above example, can www.example.com/hello.html every be Indexed, by google as I assume the googlebot will always be redirected to www.example.com/hello.html?___store=abc and will never see www.example.com/hello.html ?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi Andy,

thanks for your help. Sorry I should I have been more clear with my question- We basically have the following sites set up as subdirectories:

example.com/ae (United Arab Emirates)

example.com/sa (Saudi Arabia)

example.com/om(Oman)

example.com/qa(Qatar)

example.com/bh(Bahrain)

example.com (International - not country specific)

ae, sa, om, qa, bh are country identifiers

language identifies are "en" for english and "ar" for arabic. (The English and Arabic URL for each country is currently the same)

Using these identifiers above should I make the country website URLs as follows ?:

example.com/ae-en (UAE English)

example.com/ae-ar(UAE Arabic)

example.com/sa-en(Saudi Arabia English)

example.com/sa-ar(Saudi Arabia Arabic)

... etc for the country sites

and example.com for the (International  site)

example.com/ar for the (International Arabic Site)

Hello,

We are a multi country/multi lingual (English, Arabic) website. We are following a subdirectory structure to separate and geotarget the country/language combinations.

Currently our english and arabic urls are the same:

For UAE: example.com/ae (English Site)

For Saudi Arabic: example.com/sa (Saudi Arabia)

We want to separate the English and Arabic language URLs and I wanted to know if there is any preference as to which kind of URL structure we should go with :

example.com/ae-en  (Country-Language)

example.com/en-ae (Language-Country)

example.com/ae/en (Country/Language)

Is there any logic to deciding how to structure the language/country combinations or is is entirely a matter of personal preference.

Thanks!