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Thank you Antonio, insightful and clear.

There is really not a need of EN versions of localized sites, I think has been done more as was easier to implement (original site is EN-US).

Don't you think robots and noindex EN version of localized sites could be the best solution? for sure is the easier one to implement without affecting UX.

Hello,

I am working on a project where have some doubts regarding the structure of international sites and multi languages.Website is in the fashion industry. I think is a common problem for this industry. Website is translated in 5 languages and sell in 21 countries.

As you can imagine this create a huge number of urls, so much that with ScreamingFrog I cant even complete the crawling.

Perhaps the UK site is visible in all those versions

http://www.MyDomain.com/en/GB/

http://www.MyDomain.com/it/GB/

http://www.MyDomain.com/fr/GB/

http://www.MyDomain.com/de/GB/

http://www.MyDomain.com/es/GB/

Obviously for SEO only the first version is important

One other example, the French site is available in 5 languages and again...

http://www.MyDomain.com/fr/FR/

http://www.MyDomain.com/en/FR/

http://www.MyDomain.com/it/FR/

http://www.MyDomain.com/de/FR/

http://www.MyDomain.com/es/FR/

And so on...this is creating 3 issues mainly:

1. Endless crawling - with crawlers not focusing on most important pages

2. Duplication of content

3. Wrong GEO urls ranking in Google

I have already implemented href lang but didn't noticed any improvements. Therefore my question is

Should I exclude with "robots.txt" and "no index" the non appropriate targeting?

Perhaps for UK leave crawable just English version i.e. http://www.MyDomain.com/en/GB/, for France just the French version http://www.MyDomain.com/fr/FR/ and so on

What I would like to get doing this is to have the crawlers more focused on the important SEO pages, avoid content duplication and wrong urls rankings on local Google

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