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I have a multi-language site 

www.Sooran.com
food.sooran.com/en/      // for global
food.sooran.com/fa/      // for persian user

first page of Site(index.php) designed based on ip redirects the user's language

But late in my search engines have reduced by 10 times.

To my mind I should use a header location

Ciseur
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Don't

Just don't redirect users.

If a user is coming from Persia and wanna see EN version he won't be able to?

As Google says: "let user chooses". They did a very good article about the good way to design a homepage for international users: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2014/05/creating-right-homepage-for-your.html

Moreover, redirect based on IP is dangerous. Google does not have spiders in whole countries in the world so he might not see the different behaviors.

If you really have to : 302 redirect

(client force you to do it or you just do not understand users hate to be redirected or ...)

Use a HTTP 302 status to redirect.

Why ? Because 302 means both URLs exist. Thus Google will keep both URL indexed.

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  • What if www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/en/ both work and have the same content? Wouldn't it be wise to redirect 301 www.mysite.com (without /en/) to www.mysite.com/en/ so I don't have duplicate content? – LuBre Nov 06 '15 at 12:46
  • Shortest answer: if you really have this case, 301 redirect /en/ to the root (because it is preferable to have your content on root). But if you can, I would suggest you to publish something different on root and on /en/ – Ciseur Jan 07 '16 at 09:38