I am not sure what version this started but we are now seeing ?language=en-US or /language/en-US or some other variation of this in the URL strings while navagating our DNN site. This is not good for SEO. There are several reasons including making the page seem more dynamic and increasing the SEO URL keyword count and thus making your real kewords less significant. Couple of questions;

1. Why is this a get string paramiter and not hanled as a cookie or session or some other way?
2. Is there a way to turn this off (default it to one language i.e. en-US)

Maybe i am not completely up to speed on this. As far as i understand SEO, you should avoid multiple urls with same content and same urls with multiple content. If you have a multilingual portal, the only  way a search engine is ever going to reach your ml content is by using a language parameter in the url.

Mind you: this feature is only enabled IF you have enabled multiple languages in your portal. So you should consider disable extra languages besides en-US if you are not using language params in your urls and if you are concerned about seo

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Mark, it used to be handled by cookies prior to dnn 4.6

The issue with that is that search engines would never be able to traverse different language versions of your portal correctly. Even if the language selector emits an proper href (which it didnt priot to dnn 4.6), every page would have 2 urls: one without language param (as emited by everything but the language selector), and one with language param.

As you can see, the changes were done to enhance SEO, not to create more problems.

If however, you have multiple languages enabled that you dont use for anything else than allow for correct number formats (like en-GB), you'd have a problem with this new solution. Thats why you can turn it off on a per portal basis...

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