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Thanks for the answer Bernadette Coleman.

Yes, it can be a Google issues. But the biggest problem is that the Google Adwords team, are trying to make ads with some urls , and some Urls are being blocked by Google Adwords.

Note: The URLs that are reproved are not on the console search sampling, do not have 404 http status or redirects. Are the final URLs with 200 https Status

- Google Support answer - Disapproved ads

It seems that the issue is with the URLs. When our system crawled, they resulted in 404 violations
Hence, I request you to check Google Webmaster tools to identify the issue. Also, I request you to speak with your development team to identify the issue.
Once the issue has been fixed, I kindly ask you to re-submit the ads in the account, which will cause our system to re-review them.

About the 404 errors on console. I had already taken the 404 urls sampling console and tracked screaming frog:

246 urls Status 404
303 urls Status 200
459 urls status 301

70% of URLs were corrected, were marked as corrected on console, but Google insists back them to the list.

Hi all,

We have a number of 404 https status listed in Search Console even treated, not decrease. What happened:

1. We launched a website with the urls www.meusite.com/url-abc.
2. We launched these urls sitemap.
3. Google has indexed.

... For some reason, the urls were changed four days later by some developer in my equipe. So

4. I asked the redirection of URLs "old" already indexed to the new (of: / url-abc to / url-xyz) all correspondingly.
5. I submit the sitemap with new urls.
6. We fixed the internal links.
7. And than marked as fixed in the Search Console.

But it does not work!

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks for any advice!

HI all,

I have some questions about multilang sitemap.xml. So, we use the same domain subdirectories with gTLDs

example.com/pt-br/
example.com/us/
example.com/es/

How should I do the sitemap.xml in this case?

I thought of three alternatives:

1. Should I do a sitemap_index.xml to each lang and make categories for these sitemaps?

Examples:
http://www.example.com/pt-br/sitemap_index.xml
http://www.example.com/en/sitemap_index.xml
http://www.example.com/es/sitemap_index.xml

2. Should I do only one sitemap_index.xml covering all categories of all languages ​​?

Examples:
http://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml
http://www.example.com/pt-br/sitemap_categorias_1.xml
http://www.example.com/es/sitemap_categorias_1.xml
http://www.example.com/us/sitemap_categorias_1.xml

3. Should I do a sitemap setting all multilang?

<url><loc>http://www.example.com/us/</loc>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="es"
href="http://www.example.com/pt-br/"
/>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="us"
href="http://www.example.com/us/"
/>
<xhtml:link <br="">rel="alternate"
hreflang="pt-br"
href="http://www.example.com/pt-br/"
/></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></xhtml:link></url>

Thanks for any advice.

Hi all,

So, I have studied about multilingual and multiregional websites. As soon as possible, we will expand the website languages ​to english and spanish.

The urls will be like this:

http://example.com/pt-br
http://example.com/en-us
http://example.com/es-ar

Thereby, the tags will be like this:

Great! But my doubt is:

To /es-ar/ The indexing will be only to spanish languages in Argentina?

What about the other countries that speak the same language, like Spain, Mexico, etc.I don't know if it will be possible develop a Spanish languages especially for each region.

Should I do an multiregional website or only multilingual?

How Google sees this case?

Thanks for any advice!!

Hi all.

I saw in support.google.com the following text: Create and save the Sitemap and lists of links

• A Sitemap file containing the new URL mapping
• A Sitemap file containing the old URLs to map
• A list of sites with link to your current content

I would like to better understand about a "A list of sites with bond link to current content"

Question 1: have I need tree sitemaps simultaneously ?
Question 2: If yes, should I put this sitemap on the Search Console of the new website?
Question 3: or just Google gave a about context how do we make the migration? And I'll need really have sitemaps about the new site only..?

What about is Google talking?

Thanks for any advice.

Peter, many people usually to say that the 301 doesn't pass 100 % of relevance, and a migration like this, we could lost positions.

My opnion about it, to do the redirect 301 of [Page A] to [Page B], the [Page B] needs to be as optimized so [Page A] to receive the relevance of [Page A]. If on the contrary, we'll lose positions.

What do you think abou that?

@Peter, will be 301. My questions was realy about how long time. Thks by your tip about move using GWT.

@Everett, I liked your tip about the Screaming Frog and 404s erros! I'll be attentive! Thks.

Right! Thanks Bryan.

Still about the relevance. We'll do the redirect 301 of a domain to other domain in a directory.

Ex.: .com.br >> 301 >> .com/pt-br

Maybe Google can consider that this page (.com/pt-br) by any chance could be not more interesting? And the website return with a bad posicção?

Is there any problem about that?

Soon we will do a website migration .com.br to .com/pt-br. Wi will do this migration when we have with lower traffic. Trying to follow Google Guidelines, applying the 301 redirect, sitemap etc...

I would like to know, how long time the Google generally will use to transfering the relevance of .com.br to .com/pt-br/ using redirect 301?

Hi everyone !

For years we've had our e-commerce site targeting only our Brazilian customers, thus our domain name was domain.com.br . We've built a very strong AdWords account with the URLs within this domain and we've got a considerable SERP positioning as well.

Now we've also bought the domain.com (without the country extension ".br"), to target international clients. Our plan is to build the site using the following structure:

domain.com/en-US/
domain.com/es-ES/
domain.com/en-GB/

and also

domain.com/pt-BR/ (for our brazilian audience).

We thing that just dropping off the original domain.com.br and redirecting everything to domain.com/pt-BR/ would not be a good move, as we would need to redo all our AdWords campaigns (the domain is different) and would lose all our reputation/quality score. In terms of SEO I don't know how Google would react with the redirects (if we would keep the quality or not).

So our plan is to keep both the domain.com.br and domain.com/pt-BR/ working simultaneously, but then there's the problem of duplicate content. Should we use the "canonical" tag and if so, where should we say the original content is?

Has anyone been through this before, ie. expanding a country-level domain to a .com with multiple languages, but keeping the reputation gained by the original language.

Thanks for any advice!!

P.S. - We've also though about setting up the new structure with subdomains such as en.domain.com , es.domain.com, fr.domain.com, but we though it would work better using subdirectories. Any thoughts on this is also very welcomed.

Hi all,

So, I have studied about multilingual and multiregional websites. As soon as possible, we will expand the website languages ​to english and spanish.

The urls will be like this:

http://example.com/pt-br
http://example.com/en-us
http://example.com/es-ar

Thereby, the tags will be like this:

Great! But my doubt is:

To /es-ar/ The indexing will be only to spanish languages in Argentina?

What about the other countries that speak the same language, like Spain, Mexico, etc.I don't know if it will be possible develop a Spanish languages especially for each region.

Should I do an multiregional website or only multilingual?

How Google sees this case?

Thanks for any advice!!