LBPC Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Hi I've been online for over 7 months, my site is in french (default) and english. I receive less than 10 hits a day, and almost none of them are from France... Any ideas? Has it to do with /fr or /gb tacked on the end of every page address? Would disabling all my english translations help? Thanks in advance for any help. ww laboulangeriep ourchiens com PrestaShop™ 1.5.5.0 Hosting: 1&1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 if you are using 1.5 then a great improvement would be to define a second shop with your (or any url).fr (for France) my personal opinion is one should try to have a ccTLD for every country they do business, note for EEUU .com is the defacto standard. doing this will significantly increase your by country seo, i.e. France for example. also note one can use a subdomain name, i.e. fr.yourdomain.com....this is also a good indicator and allows one to use 'one' ssl certificate if certificate conforms so you do not need ssl for each gTLD (.com) and ccTLD (.fr).. competing in the .com field for a particular country, well only google then makes the money. more reading: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en https://www.distilled.net/blog/uncategorized/google-cctlds-and-associated-languages-codes-reference-sheet/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordiob Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 my personal opinion is one should try to have a ccTLD for every country they do business, note for EEUU .com is the defacto standard. Can't agree more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBPC Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Thanks for your advice. Originally, I thought the address would be .com for France, and only the english version would show the /gb on the end. Okay then, lots of work to do! No more annoying /fr at the end of every page at least. I think the easiest thing will be to deactivate the english version until I can change the site address to .fr So I'll need to reinstall my store on a different web address (.fr), yes? Buy a new domain name? Thanks again for your guidance. Really appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Thanks for your advice. Originally, I thought the address would be .com for France, and only the english version would show the /gb on the end. Okay then, lots of work to do! No more annoying /fr at the end of every page at least. I think the easiest thing will be to deactivate the english version until I can change the site address to .fr So I'll need to reinstall my store on a different web address (.fr), yes? Buy a new domain name? Thanks again for your guidance. Really appreciated. it is very easy because you have already done all the work, i.e. your content, generating multishops is very simple. read more about ps multishop here: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Managing+Multiple+Shops make sure as you progress to start new topic for questions note: for .com's the IP address can affect SEO, i.e. if French IP that would be better but not nearly as good as ccTLD.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordiob Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Just in case you're not using other domains for languages, be sure to put the hreflang's on the <head> of the header.tpl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBPC Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 Again thanks so much for your time, and directing me towards further reading. You really are a superstar! Just in case you're not using other domains for languages, be sure to put the hreflang's on the <head> of the header.tpl Thanks for your advice. So at the moment I'm not using any other domains for languages, so this sounds like a good idea to do right away for SEO purposes, right? Could you give me an idea of what that would entail? What exactly I add to the header.tpl (and where!) There's heaps of info about 'hreflang', but I'm not sure exactly what to do.... complete noob sorry. Is it something like this?: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-FR" href="www.mysite.com/> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr-GB" href="mysite.com/gb" /> Just to confirm, the site is french, the english translation is really only there for any english speakers in france. (I figured it couldn't hurt!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordiob Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 hiya! between the <head> and </head> tags add, for example <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://es.example.com/" /> (for Spanish)<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://fr.example.com/" /> (for French) and so on. More details here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en Hope this works for you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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