Blog Setup for multiple languages and domains

Hi community,

we have a problem and really need your help.

I’m working for a growing e commerce company/brand, and we recently moved the shop from domain.de with parameters to separate domains for each country (for example .fr and .es). This setup is managed with one account/backend and plugins for translations. This works fine for selling our products in Europe.

Our blog-setup however, doesn’t seem to work that well and for sure can’t be best practice.

If we publish a post for the French market, it gets published on

domain.fr/blogs/fr/french-post

domain.it/blogs/fr/french-post

domain.com/blogs/fr/french-post

domain.es/blogs/fr/french-post

domain.de/blogs/fr/french-post

All these URLs canonicalize back to the domain.de-Version, but it’s not the one shown in the SERPs. In one particular case the French post is indexed with the Domain for France and the Domain for Spain as a duplicate.

To make a long story short, this can’t be the ideal setup to manage multiple blogs for multiple languages within Shopify.

We would like to use a structure like

domain.de/blogs/topic

domain.de/blogs/topic/article

for German posts and

domain.fr/blogs/topic

domain.fr/blogs/topic/article

for French posts and

domain.it/blogs/topic

domain.it/blogs/topic/article

for the blog posts in Italy.

I see a lot of other Shopify shops using that kind of structure, so I’m wondering where we went wrong or which options we have.

Kind regards
Jannik

This currently doesn’t handle translations but you can try my Blog Sync app which can sync blog posts to multiple countries’ stores while maintaining the same handles in the URL.