Canonical Homepage Multi-language Website
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Hello,
Our development department is building a multi-language webshop.
Due to the multi-language module that they've used, we have example.com and example.com/nl having exactly the same content.In order to avoid duplicate content, those pages have the following canonicals:
1. example.com -> Canonical to example.com/nl
2. example.com/nl -> Canonical to example.com/nlDo I loose SEO-value by not canonicalising directly to the root-domain homepage (example.com)?
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You should only need example.com -> Canonical to example.com/nl
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Is your content in Dutch? If it is and / and /nl are the same, why not redirect /nl to /?
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You don't need to change canonical for both sites. You should use simply like this -
1. example.com -> Canonical to example.com
2. example.com/nl -> Canonical to example.com/nlBut you need to add alternate tags for all language sites.
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