It’s been mentioned before but I haven’t found a resolution. Google wasn’t indexing my site due to this. I manually asked Google to index the /en URL, and hopefully that ought to be enough to fix Google indexing. So I’m wondering about whether this is wise to have in the root redirect. It silently…

Thanks, no, it’s redirecting and serving correctly. I’m talking about the <meta name=robots content="noindex"> tag in a redirect response: curl https://forkful.ai/ <!doctype html> <html lang=de-DE> <head> <title>https://forkful.ai/en/</title> <link rel=canonical href=https://forkful.ai/e…

According to https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects#metarefresh Hugos redirects are not optimal but should work well enough. I use them on a number of multilang sites without issues. The “lang” attribute is wrong as you point out. Do you have “weight” set on your…

No, I actually have de at weight 1 and en at weight 2. And I also have: defaultContentLanguage: en

Why would you give higher precedence to the non-default language de ?

[image] dogweather: No, I actually have de at weight 1 and en at weight 2. And I also have: Switch so you have weight 1 on “en” instead and it should work.

For display purposes: Languages are typically listed in order of their two-letter codes. My site’s home page: [Screenshot 2024-01-17 at 11.25.59 AM]

Ouch. B-b-but defaultContentLanguage: en!

FYI, everyone: Cloudflare has a free account level which includes creating redirects. So my site now returns 301 for / → /en/ without even hitting GitHub Pages.

"noindex" in the multilingual redirect—does this work for everyone?

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