Duplicate site in subfolder

You know you can localize a site without having to make a duplicate copy of it. Take a look at this codex page.

Hi,

Can you kindly go through this thread.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/making-an-exact-copy-of-a-wordpress-website-on-the-same-server?replies=9

This might help you.

Let us know if you have any doubts,

I just see no reason to make a duplicate version of your site. Not only will this take up space in your database, but it’s going to hurt your SEO rankings as you’ll now have duplicate content across two sites.

Hey, to each his own.

Well i would have .com in english and .com/fr in french so i dont see why would that hurt my ranking
Thanks

Because both of the sites will have the same content, and live on the same domain. Google will see it as an exact duplicate. Regardless of location on your server (sub folder or not)

Even if one is in french the other in English??

I’m not %100, but as an educated guess I would say yes. Now, moving it to sitename.fr may be an entirely different story.

It will not harm you I guess.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en