(Entry was posted by Natalia Tomchyshy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/26/2021).

Dividing multiple language websites into subdomains

Hi guys, have anyone got experience with dividing multiple language websites into subdomains? - I mean, the main website is in English and other languages - each has its subdomain.The questions areWill there be drops in traffic?Will it change the crawl budget for the main website?

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Stockbridge Truslow: Are you doing hreflang on the same domain currently? Or multiple languages is a brand new thing?
Natalia Tomchyshyn: Stockbridge Truslow hreflang - and it messes pages a lot. so look for a way to divide the main website in English from the other versions.
Richard Hearne: Crawl budget only really becomes problematic when you`re up in the 6- to 7-figure URL counts. Every site migration I`ve ever been involved with had some traffic drops. You can`t go changing a lot of URLs without expecting at least some temporary changes to traffic.
Natalia Tomchyshyn: I want to crawl more pages in English, right now other languages prevail a lot
Michael Martinez: Natalia Tomchyshyn Assuming the crawl is driven by your internal navigation, it may be easier to adjust that than to move all the content to separate subdomains.
Richard Hearne: Natalia Tomchyshyn "prevail" meaning what please? To be clear - "crawl" does not have a strong relationship with organic "clicks".