: Clean URLs at multilingual single-page site I'd like to get rid of multilingual stuff in URLs, i.e. to get site.com/page instead of en.site.com/page, site.com/en/page, and site.com/page?lang=en. The

@Si4351233

There is nothing wrong with your desire to clean the URL's up a but per-sey, however I will point out a few things here...


Users are generally accepting of having a language code in the URL (either as a sub domain or as a directory of the main domain).
You are correct that it is best not to have the language code as a URL parameter as that can easily be changed or forgotten.
Many users don't have the Accept Language settings in their browser set right, either due to not having control over it (public or business computer) or not understanding how to do it.


Common practice, which is also one of the supported options by Google, is to either use sub domains for your language codes or to use country-code top level domains (more expensive as you need to purchase a domain name for each translation of your website). You also include the rel="alternate" href-lang="..." meta in your files to link to the translated version. Something I also do is check the headers to see if the Accept Language header is there and is something other that the default site language in which case I present the user with an option in their language to go to the translated site instead.

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