Internationalization and SEO

[Robin Mannering <ro...@mtndesigns.co.uk>]

Hello,

I have a question relating to serving international content that I hope 
someone can help with.

It is kind of leaning towards an SEO question, but it does relate to 
Struts in terms of how I can use Struts 2 to control page direction 
because of language selection.

In terms of SEO, I am guessing that serving the content for three 
languages on one page, would be bad for SEO.

For example, serving English, French and German versions for a page all 
on the same URL:

www.mydomain.com/myPage.htm

This is possible of course creating and using the corresponding language 
resource bundles.  Struts 2 would serve up the correct content based on 
the browser locale setting.

However, looking around Googles knowledgebase, it would be better to have:

www.mydomain.com/en/myPage.htm
www.mydomain.com/fr/myPage.htm
www.mydomain.com/de/myPage.htm

How can I configure struts to work in this way, ie redirect a user to a 
subdirectory tree based on the language locale set in their browser.

Thanks for any thoughts.
Robin


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Re: Internationalization and SEO

[Zoran Avtarovski <zo...@sparecreative.com>]

Have you seen URLRewrite Filter, it will enable you to set request
parameters based on URL. For example you can have
www.mydomain.com/en/myPage.htm remap to
www.mydomain.com/myPage.htm?locale=en and likewise for the others.

It¹s one of the handiest tools for web.

Z.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question relating to serving international content that I hope
> someone can help with.
> 
> It is kind of leaning towards an SEO question, but it does relate to
> Struts in terms of how I can use Struts 2 to control page direction
> because of language selection.
> 
> In terms of SEO, I am guessing that serving the content for three
> languages on one page, would be bad for SEO.
> 
> For example, serving English, French and German versions for a page all
> on the same URL:
> 
> www.mydomain.com/myPage.htm
> 
> This is possible of course creating and using the corresponding language
> resource bundles.  Struts 2 would serve up the correct content based on
> the browser locale setting.
> 
> However, looking around Googles knowledgebase, it would be better to have:
> 
> www.mydomain.com/en/myPage.htm
> www.mydomain.com/fr/myPage.htm
> www.mydomain.com/de/myPage.htm
> 
> How can I configure struts to work in this way, ie redirect a user to a
> subdirectory tree based on the language locale set in their browser.
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts.
> Robin
> 
> 
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