Eray MenekşeSoftware Developer
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Multilingual · July 27, 2026 · 12 min

/en or en.site.com?

I went with sub-paths. Why, how hreflang is set up, and how the translation approval flow works.

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On a multilingual site: /en or en.site.com? Both are defensible; I choose sub-paths and explain why here.

What sub-paths win

  • Domain authority stays in one place
  • One certificate, one deployment, less infrastructure
  • The hreflang setup is less error-prone

When the Turkish source changes in the panel, the other languages drop to “awaiting approval”; machine translation comes in as a suggestion and ships once an editor approves.

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