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Website in many languages – for SEO do you think it’s better to create an entirely different domain, or just a language prefix?
Posted by on September 13, 2025 at 8:23 amI'll be creating a website in a few languages and I'm wondering what's better for SEO.
Different domain, i.e:
mywebsite-dot-com
mywebsite-dot-fr
or just a prefix:
mywebsite-dot-com/en
mywebsite-dot-com/fr
etc.
I kinda feel like the prefix will be less good in terms of SEO and how google sees it, and that a different ending "fr" will boost the website among french searches for example – but maybe I'm wrong so I thought I'll ask. Different domains would be extra costs and time for sure
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1 Reply
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Country subfolders, canonicalise, hreflang tags in sitemap. Done
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How many of those languages do you natively speak?
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If you want to boost the overall authority of the domain do a single domain structure. If that’s not an issue and you don’t mind the complication of running multi domain website (it’s a pain in the ass) and all the extra links, and perhaps that location users default to a country tld, then go that way.
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Search for “Aleyda Solis international SEO flow chart”
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