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SEO and user-friendly URLs for multi-language website

Let's say I have a website that has 2 languages, one uses Latin and the second one Cyrillic transcriptions in URLs.

For example:

  • example.com/link
  • example.com/ссылка

My question is which is more user and SEO friendly, if I leave them as is or if I add the language prefix, so they'd become

  • example.com/en/link
  • example.com/ru/ссылка

I understand that such subdirectories should be used if I have languages that are similar and then the user wouldn't be confused, but does that also apply in my case?

Solution

  • It's better to use the second one for better SEO results.

    example.com/en/link
example.com/ru/ссылка

    Google likes the tree-like structure. Of course you can use the main language without prefix.

    Also it's better to have all languages in one domain:

    domain.com/en
domain.com/ru

    not on subdomains like this

    en.domain.com
ru.domain.com

    Wish you luck.