: SEO & Multilingual: would be this a good practise? I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course. Here's my idea: The internal links would be composed

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I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course.

Here's my idea:

The internal links would be composed of the "www" subdomain so that people can share links regardless of their language. Anyway, their language is determined by the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE PHP variable.

So, they would see site.com/mydocument/123 in their adress bar and never see any links like "http:// fr.site.com/mydocument/123" or "http://en.site.com/mydocument/123"

The user can always switch the page's language thanks to links in the footer.
The switching language link would be : fr.site.com/mydocument/123 , and clicking on it would change his language session and redirects the user to site.com/mydocument/123
In case of a crawling bot:

I read that if the HTTP_USER_LANGUAGE variable was missing then it's a crawling bot.

So, in that case, we set the defaut language as English. Each page, as I mentionned earlier, has a link for another language:
On the page: site.com/document/1323, the link fr.site.com/document/1323 can be seen by the bot and be crawled.

What do you think about this practise ?
Would I get good SEO results for each language ?

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The best practices are often the simplest practices (particularly when there are many different systems involved) - maintaining session data for every visitor and redirecting behind the scenes isn't very simple.

For SEO: Search engines will automatically return results in the language which matches the user's language preferences and search terms, and users will have the same option to switch their language by navigating to a different subdomain without any redirects.

For link sharing: set up your redirect script at site.com and provide the language-based redirect links for anyone who wants to use them, but don't force anyone (or any search engine spiders) to use them.

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: SEO & Multilingual: would be this a good practise? I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course. Here's my idea: The internal links would be composed

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: I have already suggested the following CMS to a couple of people already and I believe it could be handy for you: SilverStripe CMS. If you check out the demo you'll notice that you can

: Only First Link Counts If anyone hasn't seen yet the following blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule It is describing that from at least two links (so two or more)

: A 302 redirect tells the visitor the page has temporarily moved. Note the temporarily part. This means that the next time a Google bot visits your site it will try to index the same url

: Just because you submitted a sitemap doesn't mean Google will index all of your pages(see near bottom of this page). It merely tells them where your content is and in no way guarantees inclusion.

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