Will deleting international marketplaces from our site cause SEO issues?

[Skhann]

We have published four other marketplaces (Germany, Spain etc) on our Shopify UK website. We just want to focus on the UK marketplace. If we remove these international marketplaces is it going to cause 404 errors or any other SEO-related issues?

Are there any benefits to keeping the international markets published and if so what are they?

Thanks

[Victor]

Hi @Skhann,

Thank you for reaching out. Did you set up these marketplaces via Shopify Markets, or did you just offer shipping to these countries? Do you own localized domains (e.g. website.de, website.es, etc) for the marketplaces you've set up?

[elise4]

Hello Victor I have the same question 🙂

I set up the marketplaces via Shopify markets. 

I have a main website www.mywebsite.com and extension like www.mywebsite.com/fr-fr www.mywebsite.com/fr-ch www.mywebsite/fr-be

....
Could you please help?
is it ok if I delete these markets ?

Because I think my SEO is really bad now due to duplicate content.
Thanks in advance and best regards

Elise