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Hi everyone, I have a question about multilingual blogs and site structure. Right now, we have the typical subfolder localization structure. ex: domain.com/page (english site) domain.com/ja/page (japanese site) However, the blog is a slightly more complicated. We'd like to have english posts available in other languages (as many of our users are bilinguals). The current structure suggests we use a typical domain.com/blog or domain.com/ja/blog format, but we have issues if a Japanese (logged in) user wants to view an English page. domain.com/blog/article would redirect them to domain.com/ja/blog/article thus 404-ing the user if the post doesn't exist in the alternate language. One suggestion (that I have seen on sites such as etsy/spotify is to add a /en/ to the blog area: ex domain.com/en/blog domain.com/ja/blog Would this be the correct way to avoid this issue? I know we could technically work around the 404 issue, but I don't want to create duplicate posts in /ja/ that are in English or visa versa. Would it affect the rest of the site if we use a /en/ subfolder just for the blog? Another option is to use: domain.com/blog/en domain.com/blog/ja but I'm not sure if this alternative is better. Any help would be appreciated!

I the SEO MOZ crawl diagnostics for my site, www.heartspm.com, I am getting over 100 duplicate content errors on links built from tags on blog entries.  I do have the original base blog entry in my site map not referencing the tags. Similarly, I am getting almost 200 duplicate meta description errors in Google Webmaster Tools associated with links automatically generated from tags on my blog.  I have more understanding that I could get these errors from my forum, since the forum entries are not in the sitemap, but the blog entries are there in the site map. I thought the tags were only there to help people search by category.  I don't understand why every tag becomes its' own link.  I can see how this falsely creates the impression of a lot of duplicate data. As seen in GWT: Pages with duplicate meta descriptions Pages [Customer concerns about the use of home water by pest control companies.](javascript:dropInfo('zip_0div', 'none', document.getElementById('zip_0zipimg'), 'none', null);)/ca​teg​ory​/jo​b-s​ite​-re​qui​rem​ent​s/ta​g/c​ost​-of​-wa​ter/ta​g/i​rri​gat​ion​-us​age/ta​g/s​ave​-wa​ter/ta​g/s​tan​dar​d-i​ndu​str​y-p​rac​tic​e/ta​g/w​ate​r-u​se 6 [Pest control operator draws analogy between Children's Day and the state of the pest control industr](javascript:dropInfo('zip_1div', 'none', document.getElementById('zip_1zipimg'), 'none', null);)/ta​g/c​hil​dre​n-i​n-m​ode​rn-​wor​ld/ta​g/c​hil​dre​n/ta​g/c​hil​dre​ns-​day/ta​g/c​ons​erv​ati​on-​med​ici​ne/ta​g/e​cow​ise​-ce​rti​fie​d/ta​g/e​sto​nia/ta​g/e​xte​rmi​nat​ion​-se​rvi​ce/ta​g/e​xte​rmi​nat​or/ta​g/g​ree​n-t​hum​b/ta​g/h​ear​ts-​pes​t-m​ana​gem​ent/ta​g/h​igh​er-​cer​tif​ica​tio​n/ta​g/h​igh​er-​edu​cat​ion/ta​g/t​art​u/ta​g/u​nit​ed-​sta​tes