Hi all,
Can you please help me to understand the following better?
We are in the process of localizing our main website which is in English.
I don't want to get caught in duplicate content issues, so thought of adding rel=canonical in the localized pages. But what my concern is, I remember I read it somewhere that rel=canonical is used to tell Search Engines which version of URL is preferred to be indexed. So the Search Engines then use this information in their indexing process to display the preferred URL to the searcher.
So let's say...
example.com/resources
and the localized(not translated) is
example.com/fr/resources
As for the second URL, I am going to add a rel=canonical stating that "example.com/resources" is the original page, in order to avoid duplicate issues.
My Question is
1. Is this actually the right way?
2. If rel=canonical is to notify the preferred URL, will my "fr" version show up in index?
2. Or the "fr" version will only be indexed if the search is made from France or selecting French from the browser?
Thanks a lot!
