I use the following custom permalinks structure for my English website on a multisite wordpress:
/%category%/%postname%/
This forms a URL that looks like this:
https://website.com/articles/article-1
I created a subdirectory as /ar for the Arabic version of the website. When I use the same URL structure it ends up creating a URL that looks like this:
https://website.com/المقالات/مقالة-1
Basically it gets reversed, the name of the article is shown first and then the category name (The one with 1- is the name of the article as you can guess).
But if I reverse the custom permalinks structure in WordPress and make it as:
/%postname%/%category%/
Then the URL shows properly as:
https://website.com/مقالة-1/المقالات
Where the name of the category is shown first after the root / and then the article name. But how concerning would this be for SEO? What is the recommended practice? Is the way its visible to the user what matters? Would this reversing cause google crawlers, and then SERPs to get confused or this is the way to do it?
Any insights would be highly appreciated!