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I have a page example.com that includes a language file based on visitor's country (through IP). There is only one page but several language files.

Scenarios:

visitor in UK or any other country not supported by my languages -> example.com (language in English)

visitor from IT -> example.com (language in Italian)

The UK visitor changes the language to Italian -> example.com/it

The IT visitor changes the language to English -> example.com/en

The IT visitor who sees tha page in English, deletes the /en from the browser -> example.com (language in Italian)

HTML

I have set it like 

<html lang="en">
<link rel="alternate" href="/it"  hreflang="it">

Questions

  1. Should I also add the "en" version, that means all the available languages?
  2. Is my structure the correct way of doing this?

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  • Do you mean that you load a language file like in a desktop application based on the visitors IP?
    – Ignacio Soler Garcia
    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 13:10
  • @IgnacioSolerGarcia What I do is to identify the IP and include(en.php) depending on the country
    – EnexoOnoma
    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 14:37

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Your structure is correct. For the 'all languages' version, you can use the hreflang="x-default" attribute for this.
This is explained more detailed by Googles hreflang article.

You could have the following elements:

 <html lang="en">
 <link rel="alternate" href="/it"  hreflang="it">
 <link rel="alternate" href="/"  hreflang="x-default"> <!-- or href="/en" -->
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