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Hi,

We are planning on having our website localized into more languages. We already have an English and German version. The German version is currently a sub-domain:

www.example.com --> English version

de.example.com --> German version

Is this recommended? Or is it always better to have URLs with language prefixes such a:

www.example.com/de

www.example.com/es

Which is a better practice in terms of SEO?

Hello,

This is a simple question regarding how URLs should be managed for proper results with the hreflang tags.

Right now, we have a website in English and German. The hreflang tag is working properly. This is how we currently have it:

• https://www.memoq.com/
• https://de.memoq.com/

But we will soon change the way we localize our web, moving out of the sub-domain structure. There is this possibility of localizing the URLs path, but I was wondering if the hreflang tag would work in such case.

The new structure would look something like:

• https://www.memoq.com/why-memoq
• https://www.memoq.com/de/warum-memoQ

So my question is: If we localize the keyword in the path of the URL, will the tag still work? Or do they need to be in the same language than the English version.

Thanks!