Hello fellows! I wonder if i want to be indexed (on google or other search engines) sites I own that their content is behind the "/" (for instance: www.ptcjournal.com/en) Will I have problems?. At the top level domain there is nothing, just a redirect to /en. I do this with many of my sites just in case I decide to translate them into different languages. Is this bad for indexation? I don't know if I am explaining correctly so you can understand what I mean. In the example above, if you go to ptcjournal.com (without the /en) it redirects you to ...journal.com/en. There is nothing without the /en It was kind of hard to explain that in english I hope you understood. Looking forward to your response. Regards, Chewie.
The trouble is when people link to you they will probably just link to your top level domain without the '/en'. Thoeretically as long as the redirect is a 301 redirect there shouldn't be a problem and you'll still get the benefit passed on to your '/en' version. However, many people use 301 redirecting to manipulate ranks by buying old domains and passing on the link value to their own sites. Google tries to filter out this kind of manipulation. In a nutshell if you're 301'ing theirs a chance that some of the links pointing to your root domain will be filtered out as false positives. It's really better not to take the risk and just have no redirect at all.
Just build links with that proper extension on the domain and you will be indexed just fine. Good Luck
Thanks! I noticed that in some directories the TLD description is actually the description inside /en, so it is reading the information after the redirect.
It doesn't hurt but you certainly won't benefit from it either. How more slashes how lower the rank for that directory.