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Hi everybody,one of my clients has a domain (www.sea-aeroportimilano.it) well ranked on Google.it.
He has a redirect 302 from www.sea-aeroportimilano.it to www1.seamilano.eu/landing/index_it.html. The site has also an english version (www1.seamilano.eu/landing/index_en.html).Do you think it's the right setting? What about a 301 from www.sea-aeroportimilano.it to www1.seamilano.eu/landing and after that an authomatic redirect 302 for the language (to www1.seamilano.eu/landing/index_it.html or www1.seamilano.eu/landing/index_en.html)?Thanks a lot.Massimiliano -
Hi Peter,
in this article it talks about a simple depending on users localization redirect, in the same domain.
In my case are two domains. the first www.sea-aeroportimilano.it with a redirect 302 to a landing page in italian or english in another domain (www1.seamilano.eu/landing/index_it.html).
I would like to follow the google guide lines for redirection and to set a 301 between www.sea-aeroportimilano.it and www1.seamilano.eu/landing, and after that a 302 for the language.
Of course I will add hreflang for IT and EN.
What do you think?
Massimiliano
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Google recommend to keep this with 302:
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/05/creating-right-homepage-for-your.html
so keep it as now with 302, just add hreflang for both pages after redirect. Also on original domain add "vary: accept-language" header.I think that one redirection is better than two redirections specially for mobile users.
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Hi Peter,
thank you for your answer.
The problem is not for the Google Search, but for direct or referrals traffic.
When someone put the www.sea-aeroportimilano.it address on the address bar he will be redirected automatically to the proper language version. But now the redirection is a 302 cross domain.
In my opinion it could be better to set a 301 redirect between www.sea-aeroportimilano.it and www1.seamilano.eu/landing/ and after that an automatical redirect 302 to the language proper language version.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance
Massimiliano
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Why you make 301/302 redirect to other site when you just can make hreflang cross domain between sites?
Then italian users will see italian version in SERP and english users can see english version.Here is how to do it:
https://mza.seotoolninja.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
https://mza.seotoolninja.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights
https://mza.seotoolninja.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool
https://mza.seotoolninja.com/blog/open-source-library-tool-check-hreflang
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/getting-a-better-understanding-of-hreflang/60468/You also need to verify in SearchConsole both sites and can setup on Italian site that it's for Italians. And setup English for worldwide.
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