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Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools for multilingual website

thisThis is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues.:

I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: en/en/, it/it/, ru/ru/. In the <head> section of each one I have <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="http://website.com/x/" />. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with GAGoogle Analytics and Webmaster tools.Webmasters Tools?

I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that http://example.com automatically redirects to http://example.com/en/ (default folder/language), do I include the same tracking code on each page for all 3 languages  ? If so, when I register the website to GAGoogle Analytics, what urlURL should I specify is the website  ? I think http://example.com won't work because it automatically redirects to the en/ subfolder.

And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages  ?

Also, every page has the same name in all three languages, . For example: http://example.com/en/about-us in Italian will be http://example.com/it/about-us, if this matters somehow.

Thank you.

Google Analytics and Webmasters for multilingual website

this is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues. I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: en/, it/, ru/. In the <head> of each one I have <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="http://website.com/x/" />. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with GA and Webmaster tools.

I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that http://example.com automatically redirects to http://example.com/en/ (default folder/language), do I include the same tracking code on each page for all 3 languages  ? If so, when I register the website to GA, what url should I specify is the website  ? I think http://example.com won't work because it automatically redirects to en/ subfolder.

And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages  ?

Also, every page has the same name in all three languages, http://example.com/en/about-us in Italian will be http://example.com/it/about-us, if this matters somehow.

Thank you.

Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools for multilingual website

This is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues:

I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: en/, it/, ru/. In the <head> section of each one I have <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="http://website.com/x/" />. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with Google Analytics and Webmasters Tools?

I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that http://example.com automatically redirects to http://example.com/en/ (default folder/language), do I include the same tracking code on each page for all 3 languages? If so, when I register the website to Google Analytics, what URL should I specify is the website? I think http://example.com won't work because it automatically redirects to the en/ subfolder.

And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages?

Also, every page has the same name in all three languages. For example: http://example.com/en/about-us in Italian will be http://example.com/it/about-us, if this matters somehow.

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Google Analytics and Webmasters for multilingual website

this is the first time I am doing a multilingual website and I have a few issues. I have 3 languages, each in its separated folder: en/, it/, ru/. In the <head> of each one I have <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x" href="http://website.com/x/" />. What I don't yet understand is how do I index the website with GA and Webmaster tools.

I don't need the ability to see the statistics for each language separated, just the whole website at once. So, given the fact that http://example.com automatically redirects to http://example.com/en/ (default folder/language), do I include the same tracking code on each page for all 3 languages ? If so, when I register the website to GA, what url should I specify is the website ? I think http://example.com won't work because it automatically redirects to en/ subfolder.

And for Webmaster Tools, do I register the root website and then separate it with geolocation, or do I register an account for each of the three languages ?

Also, every page has the same name in all three languages, http://example.com/en/about-us in Italian will be http://example.com/it/about-us, if this matters somehow.

Thank you.