I added the English version of the site, what should I do so that the bots understand me correctly?

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Arkady2013-10-22 20:45:10

Arkady, 2013-10-22 20:45:10

There is a site, until some time there was only a Russian version. Now English navigation has appeared: example.com is Russian, en.example.com is English.

Each page has

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="английская версия">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ru" href="русская версия">

robots.txt - should there be one for both sub-domains?
sitemap - the same for all sub-domains now its own, with links to the desired language?

Will there be duplicate content? What else needs to be done to get the full profit?

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Barmunk, 2013-10-22
@Barmunk

I usually add both sites to Google and Yandex webmaster and separate the regions. More than enough for them to understand what's what.

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pavlikru, 2013-10-30
@pavlikru

The markup is as indicated, the subdomain is also correct.
More details here help.yandex.ru/webmaster/yandex-indexing/locale-pages.xml
Each version of the site is a separate site in the eyes of the search engine, which means each has its own robots.txt and sitemap.
And both sites separately in the Yandex and Google webmaster panels with the region indicated.
There will be no duplication if the sites are really in different languages, and not a copied one site.