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I have a website in two languages; English and French. Right now all pages are mixed in the root folder. The French pages have a _f at the end, for ex mypage_f.html.
Does this affect the ranking in the Search Engines? What I want to do is index my French pages into the French search engines and the English ones into the English Search engines.
I am wondering if it's not better to make a separate folder named "French" and to move all my French pages there. All may French pages have <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//FR"> and the English pages <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> By being both languages in the same folder, does it make more difficult for a spider to crawl / index my site properly? (or this can be even penalized...)
Please advice what's your idea.
Thanks for your help
That seems like the right thing to do, if at least to keep you sane when updating your website, good file housekeeping and all. I have multiple language sites on the same server but in different folders and with seperate domains. Sites do well. I'm not saying that this is the best way to do it, only that it works well for me.
