: International Targeting & dinamic language page I have 3 types of pages on my site: example.com/ru/about example.com/en/about example.com/about pages with ru are in Russian, pages with en are in

@Candy875

What shoud I do in this situation? I suppose completely remove all hreflangs from / version?


This will eleminate the errors but is not the best choice for dealing whith your multi-language website.

Your Website actually has two languages available: EN and RU.

You decided to make use of language directories which is good. Actually there is no need of serving the same content outside of the language directories, as a user can only choose between RU or EN.


Decide which language is the standard language you serve


As already stated you have two versions of your page. I guess it would be okay to show the english version to everyone who does not apply to Russian language.


Implement 302 redirection based on ACCEPT_LANGUAGE


Leverage ACCEPT_LANGUAGE for 302 redirecting Russian language users to the /ru/ -directory URLs.
Google will undestand you're redirecting users based on their ACCEPT_LANGUAGE settings.


avoid serving other than Language-Directory URLs


Make sure you do not serve URLs outside your language directories. Your homepage will be example.com/en/ an redirection will be applied as stated in step 2.


Implement hreflang


Implementing hreflang following this scheme:

for example.com/en/

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/en/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://example.com/ru/">


for example.com/ru/

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/en/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="http://example.com/ru/">


See: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077



Generally you can serve different language content on the same URL without using the language directories as Google is able to understand ACCEPT_LANGUAGE variations.
See: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6144055?hl=en

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