Url formats for my website.

Question

Hi All,

I have a doubt with my website which is related to movies.

I am creating my website in two versions for all the Industries like XYZ/ Tollywood / movie-news (For english version).

xyz/telugu-movie-news (telugu version)

Similar type for Bollywood and Kollywood too.. But my doubt is there are some other languages like Bhojpuri, bengali, Punjabi, oriya and many more. For them there is no specific industry so can I give urls like xyz/bengali/movie-news(English version) and xyz/bengali/bengali-movie-news (bengali language version).....

Is that correct?? Would it be useful for SEO or any problem for SEO??? Please help me out...

Answer 1

One of the problems in your question is that none of your examples are valid domain names, unless xyz and XYZ stand for domain-name.com or something.

There are 2 main ways to handle your situation, both having been proven to be SEO friendly. Let's assume a basic domain name such as 'movie-news.com'. The 2-letter code found here can either be used as a subdomain or as a prefix to the uri. Examples for Bengali:

• http://movie-news.com << default language such as English or any other of your choice
• http://bn.movie-news.com << Bengali, indicated in the subdomain
• http://movie-news.com/bn << Bengali again, on the same domain (my preferred version)

Then all pages can be added onto that.

• http://movie-news.com/my-cool-page
• http://bn.movie-news.com/my-cool-page
• http://movie-news.com/bn/my-cool-page

Answer 2

See also this question on Serverfault - http://serverfault.com/questions/52946/ - "Website strategy for having a single site work for multiple countries?"