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I have a website in Spanish and English.

When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie.

I have the following URLs

es.example.com
en.example.com
example.com

I want that when an user enter to es.example.com/any_url the cookie is set and then is redirected to example.com/any_url, but if it's a crawler then is not redirected.

As you can see there isn't any obscure intention here, is just so the URL is cleaner. Does this have in any kind of penalization by search engines?

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You should red up on Google's new multi-lingual guidelines – John Conde♦ Jan 20 at 15:12
Thanks, the 301 is suggested then, with a cookie for the language. I guess the crawlers do take the cookie in account. – Zequez Jan 20 at 15:28
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Maybe I should make that an answer then! – John Conde♦ Jan 20 at 15:30
Maybe you should. – Zequez Jan 20 at 20:06
I've gone ahead and done that. – John Conde♦ Jan 20 at 20:49
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You should read up on Google's new multi-lingual guidelines.

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And here is more from Google about multi-lingual. – Zequez Jan 20 at 23:46
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