url-design

Should default language of multilingual website be a part of the URL? [closed]

前提是你 提交于 2019-11-28 03:59:25
问题 I have set up a multilingual website, whose default language is English and it is translated in many more languages. We have chosen for the subdirectory URL strategy, so that our URLs are like example.com/en , example.com/fr etc. Should the default language be omitted from those URLs? So instead of example.com/en example.com/fr example.com/de we could use example.com (default site language, EN in this case) example.com/fr example.com/de Which is better in terms of SEO, UX, best practices? p.s

When should I use a trailing slash in my URL?

那年仲夏 提交于 2019-11-26 11:00:58
When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example - should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us ? I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues - duplicate content and the canonical thing; I'm trying to figure out which one I should use in the context of serving pages correctly alone. For example, my colleague is thinking that a trailing slash at the end means it's a "folder" - a "directory", so this is not a correct style. But I think that without a slash in the end - it's not quite correct either, because it almost looks like a folder, but it isn't and it's not a normal file