When you have “automatic redirection” activated for your shop with markets set to “primary domain only” or custom domain strategy, non-primary market content is not indexed by search engines to comply with Google guidelines.
What exactly is meant with ‘non-primary market content’?
I have following situation:
A single domain which is shared across multiple markets + two active languages. The secondary language is English and therefore accessible via /en.
I’m using Translate and Adapt to translate all content.
With this setup and automatic redirection enabled, will the secondary language content (English) be indexed by Google?
If not, would it be in case we switch to markets subdirectories, which combines market + language in the url (eg /uk-en)?
We have a similar setup (our primary market is UK) and I am wondering the same. We have subfolders for Germany (en-de and de-de) but otherwise use the primary domain for all other markets. We are currently using the Geolocation app and I read about its removal at the end of the year, supposedly because Automatic Redirection makes it unnecessary. I have some concerns about Automatic Redirection, and like you don’t understand what the statement about non-primary market content means.
Google primarily crawls from the US, and with automatic redirection in place I suspect Google will start to crawl sites in USD regardless of the primary market, unless there is something clever about the way it’s been built.
Hi @rvdp88 , I managed to get some further information on this. Anything with a subfolder will be indexed by Google, so in your case /en will. What Shopify are saying is that markets that share the primary domain and language won’t be crawled, but I think that’s our understanding anyway when choosing to use a the primary domain and not created subfolders.