Multilingual site with EasyDiscuss?
By Roman Lipatov on Monday, 07 June 2021
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Hello!
I have multilingual site.
English /
Spanish /es/
French /fr/
etc

If we use links to forum with assigned language we getting multiple duplicates:

/forum/
/es/forum/
/fr/forum/

If we use fixed url /forum/ for all languages, when user press on link - language will switched to English.

In same time I do not want to create different categories for each language. Forum is for communication in English only.

So, I can't solve this issue.
Can you take a look at my following suggestion and see if I understand your current setup correctly?

1. You set up a multilingual site.
2. The forum only posted English content.
3. And allow users to access different language forum pages.

If I understand this correctly, this is my suggestion :

Add disallow rules in robots.txt, mean do not allow search engine like Google to index these pages if the URL contains the following alias since all the forum discussion post only posted in English content, so it doesn't make sense to let search engine to index these discussion post with the different language code.
- es/forum
- fr/forum
- de/forum
- ru/forum
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 08 June 2021 19:08
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Do you mean that you want to always show 1 unique URL to your English Forum page even the user trying to access Spanish/French language pages?

If yes, unfortunately it is not possible to achieve this. Unless you only create "Forum" menu item only showing on English language page.
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 08 June 2021 10:37
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Ok. Lets create menu item aliases for each languages.
Now we have such links to forum:



/forum/

/es/forum/

/fr/forum/

/de/forum/

/ru/forum/



and now we have tons of duplicates posts



/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss

/es/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss

/fr/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss

/de/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss

/ru/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss


and each of this post have own canonical link



<link href="https://site.com/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss" rel="canonical" />

<link href="https://site.com/es/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss" rel="canonical" />

<link href="https://site.com/fr/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss" rel="canonical" />

<link href="https://site.com/de/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss" rel="canonical" />

<link href="https://site.com/ru/forum/thank-you-for-choosing-easydiscuss" rel="canonical" />


Don't you think this is not very good?

Canonical link should be on default language page. No?

And same for user profiles. When we have 10K profiles, EasyDiscuss will display 60K profiles for 6 site languages, each with own canonical link.

Google will destroy such a site.
Roman Lipatov
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Tuesday, 08 June 2021 14:41
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And also set Robots Noindex, Nofollow for items menus.
Ok, good idea.
Thanks.
Roman Lipatov
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Wednesday, 09 June 2021 00:41
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You are most welcome.

Just for your information, I have locked and marked this thread as resolved to avoid confusion in the future. Please start a new thread if you have any other issues in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiries.

Thanks for understanding.
Arlex Wong
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Wednesday, 09 June 2021 09:56
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