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#854 – EN Language URL code erased by sh404sef

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Friday, 14 August 2015 12:36 UTC

kobavision

My website has 3 languages:
- www.xxxx.be/nl-be
- www.xxxx.be/fr-be
- www.xxxx.be/en

At the bottom of each page, the language can be changed.
When enabling sh404sef URL optimization, the english language url code is erased. The 3 languages are displayed:
- www.xxxx.be/nl-be
- www.xxxx.be/fr-be
- www.xxxx.be/

The "en" should remain to change to different languages. If a dutch browser wants to change to English, he is clicking English-->www.xxxx.be which will result in www.xxxx.be/nl-be.

How can I solve this issue? English should remain with www.xxxx.be/en

Friday, 14 August 2015 12:40 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Basically, this is correct. If Enlgish is your site default language, you should NOT have the home page accessible both from / and /en.
Even if you have a redirect in place that sends / to /en, having a 301 redirect on your homepage is a terrible thing to do from a SEO standpoint.

That's one of the thing Joomla has wrong when it comes to SEO, and normally sh404SEF does fix that.

Rgds

Friday, 14 August 2015 12:55 UTC

kobavision

Hi
Our homepage isn't accesible from / and /en. When you visit / you are redirected depending on your browser language to /nl-be or /fr-be or /en.

The problem is that when I'm a dutch visitor but I want english and I click english language on the website is still remain dutch because the link behind English is www.xxxx.be/ and not www.xxxx.be/en

Regards

Friday, 14 August 2015 12:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

hen you visit / you are redirected depending on your browser language to /nl-be or /fr-be or /en.

Yes, that is the SEO problem. You should not be redirected, and there should never be a /en accesible to search engines on your site. Anywhere.
The English version should be accessible from /, without a language prefix, otherwise you're creating duplicate content for your most important page, the homepage.

Rgds

Friday, 14 August 2015 13:03 UTC

kobavision

Okay I understand. What should than be the optimal settings for language filter and switcher so a dutch browser will get automaticly dutch when visiting www.xxxx.be/ but still have the possiblity to switch to english?

Friday, 14 August 2015 13:09 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Remove the lang code for default language, in the Joomla Language filter and you should be good.

(You'll need to purge URLs in sh404SEF so that new ones are created).

Rgds

Friday, 14 August 2015 13:20 UTC

kobavision

This doesn't work. I removed the code in language switcher (no possibility to do so in language filter).
I have a dutch browser, when I'm on www.xxxx.be/nl-be and click on english below (www.xxxx.be) is get back to www.xxxx.be/nl-be

Other settings?
Language filer:
Language Selection for new Visitors -->Browser Settings
Automatic Language Change --> No
Item Associations -->Yes
Remove URL Language Code -->No
Cookie Lifetime --> Year
Add Alternate Meta Tags -->No

Monday, 17 August 2015 09:42 UTC

wb_weeblr

(no possibility to do so in language filter).

Yes, you can. You still have it set to no:

Remove URL Language Code -->No

Please se to yes, and revert whatever changed you made to the Language switcher module, because that module does NOT have any setting related to removing the language code on default language.

Rgds

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