Questions tagged [hreflang]
The hreflang tag (also referred to as rel="alternate" hreflang="x") tells Google which language you are using on a specific page, so the search engine can serve that result to users searching in that language.
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How to Solve Pages with Duplicate Meta Duplicate Tags & Content Error due to multilingual pages?
I am using one of popular SEO tool and it showing me error of duplicate meta tags and content for below type of URL structures (I am taking as example) and I am working for agency.
www.example.com/abc/...
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Hreflang Tags on Paginated Pages
I have a question with regards to Hreflang tags on paginated pages. Let's say I have english version and german version website for /blog category
So my URL's will be - www.example.com/blog - EN ...
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hreflang unique situation
i have a unique situation for my international site.
I have pricing visable on the EU,UK,CA,US stores and no pricing on the rest of world store. so my plan is to make the international store the main ...
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Do I need 50 URL Variations for a single URL for hreflang?
I have a website which is listing merchants and their offers. Every merchant is selling to one or more countries. Let's make it about televisions.
Merchant A ships to US, CA
Merchant B ships to US, DE,...
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How to make and submit a sitemap for a multilingual (translated) website (subdomains)?
I run a website that's been translated over Weglot to 5 languages, and now I have 5 different subdomains for https://www.example.eu/, like https://it.example.eu/, etc. First, I was worried will Google ...
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Do all pages have to be added to XML Sitemaps?
I'm planning to add an XML Sitemap to a client's existing website. According to this, it will help define the difference between the root website (aimed at UK) and the US website (aimed at the United ...
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Setting up hreflang correctly on a huge international website
I'm doing SEO on my company's site. It's very big, with tens of thousands of pages, in 30+ languages.
We have hreflang & canonicals set up, and the structure is quite straightforward where each ...
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SEO implications of having EN hreflang with German content
we're trying to understand whether there will be any serious SEO implications impacting the website in the following situation: We've got one URL (/events) with hreflang being en, however, it can also ...
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Using hreflang with same content across multilingual sites
I have a business listing site. The content of these businesses is ALL in German (title, description, etc), so nothing is translated to other languages. This last fact makes my question slightly ...
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Same content, different domains, different languages = hreflang?
I have a question. Related topics would be: duplicate content, different languages, maybe hreflang.
I'm located in Belgium. Belgium is multi-lingual. I have a company that offers preparation for a ...
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Will adding nofollow to alternate language links prevent Googlebot from crawling so many of them?
I have a site with many pages (30MM+ indexed) and have been getting a extremely high number of URLs on your site warning message for a long time. I'm thinking of reducing the numbers of URLs Google ...
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What proportion of a page should minimally be in a given language to warrant the use of lang and hreflang tags?
I am building an angular social media website that is intended to be used internationally.
People will be able to post multiple translations of the same page if they choose to.
Next to this people who ...
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How does Google determine duplicate content when it's translated into different languages?
I was wondering how duplicate content in another language works.
Google requests that you use canonical links to determine duplicate content or duplicates of your pages to avoid duplicate content in ...
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How to test website in different countries / languages?
So after much effort and pain (I'm an iOS developer, not a web developer), I have my website (https://359north.com) set up to support 16 different languages/countries (thanks https://ahrefs.com - I ...
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How should I add a hreflang to the existing website
My e-commerce website is 10 years in the internet already, focused just on my home country (.de) and I use just one main .com domain. Now I want to expand to other market (UK) so I want to add new ...
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Should I use en or en-us when using hreflang?
I have a multilingual website and I have questions about using hreflang.
Currently my website has 2 pages, one in Turkish and one in English.
If you enter the home page from turkey, it redirects you ...
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How do I prevent keyword cannibalization with href lang tag?
I'm afraid that "keyword cannibalization" takes place when for example I have the following two pages on my site: /en/shoe and /en-us/shoe. Can I assume with absolute certainty that Google's ...
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Google search console says 2 redirect errors out of 15 pages using hreflang
My website on Github Pages has 15 different pages for different languages and locales. They all have the following in the head block.
<link rel="alternate" href="https://...
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Should en and x-default be included on the same page for hreflang tags?
We are using a tool called SEMRush where it is flagging that the en and x-default values for the hreflang are causing conflicts.
Should both en and x-default be included for the hreflang tags?
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How do I implement self-referencing hreflang tags on a translated website?
We're currently using HREFLANG plugin on my WordPress site, but it doesn't have tags for all the countries we need, so we also use the WPML plugin, however this plugin won't let you edit the hreflang ...
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How can hreflang be added to a Shopify website?
I have these 3 directories for different countries. I can add an hreflang on WordPress, but I don't know where to implement it on my Shopify site.
https://example.com is for the USA
https://nl.example....
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hreflang sitemap with multiple language-region
i have 2 sitemaps only usage for template purpose, and use 2 sub-directory English(also other lang) and China with same contain.
en-sitemap with 15urls (EN sub-directory), the contain like follow:
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Can hreflang in XML sitemaps include country as well as language?
We have a multicountry and multilanguage website. Different countries have multiple available languages. We have different version of each page for country and language.
From Google documentation I ...
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URL to only redirect to language-specific URLs using HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE?
Before I begin, I am aware of https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/managing-multi-regional-sites, but there I have a specific question which isn't answered there.
I have a ...
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Should i add a hreflang tag for all the different urls that point to the same localized page?
I have a plant guide page that can be accessed from multiple urls. This plant guide page can be in multiple languages. Should i add a hreflang tag for each alternative url or just one of them? For ...
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Why is google search console misreading my URLs and sitemap.xml?
I have a very stranget issue on my site with Google Search Console.
I've added my sitemap here: https://formulastocks.com/sitemap.xml
which links to 2 other site maps:
https://formulastocks.com/...
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Applying hreflang and canonical to a website with multiple domains and subfolders with different languages
Currently I have a website with multiple domains, each domain for a specific language. However, I also have sub folders with each language. For example:
www.en_site.example/en
www.en_site.example/fr ...
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hreflang and canonical tag for new country specific website - different base domain
I have a little different situation compared to most other questions which asks for hreflang and canonical tags for country specific version of websites.
This is an SEO related question and I was ...
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hreflang - do I need to prefix links on the different versions of my pages?
hreflang has proven extremely frustrating for me to implement with my previously clean site layout. I've finally bitten the bullet to risk it because Google still doesn't index our translated versions ...
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Canonicals and hreflang for regionalized pages
I have a website that offers different languages as well as pages suited for users in different regions.
Imagine the following 4 pages:
https://www.example.com/international/en/our-products/
https://...
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Using hreflang and canonical in multilingual pages with untranslated content
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I've been looking through questions on this forum (mostly old) but found conflicting information.
I have a bilingual website (Thai and English) with some pages having untranslated content (let'...
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Should I put hreflang in the sitemap if my site already has link tags containing hreflang?
I am using hreflang between languages on a global website. My hreflang code is:
<link rel=”alternate” href=”https://example.com/en/” hreflang=”en” />
<link rel=”alternate” href=”https://...
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Duplicate content and the HREFLang Attribute
If you have example.com written in British English and then an HREFLang alternate of example.com/en-gb/, so both pages have exactly the same copy in the same language.
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Google-selected canonical is my original site rather than my multilingual site
Google-selected canonical is my original site rather than my multilingual site!
I built a website www.example.com, then I made it a multilingual site, with an "en" at the end. (original ...
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Should the same hreflang localization links be repeated under the <loc> for different languages in an XML sitemap?
So I know that alternative links should be put like the below in a sitemap...
<url>
<loc>http://www.mywebsite.com/lang/french/</loc>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate&...
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Hreflang tags in wordpres
I am using RankMath plugin and there is no Hreflang tags in this. Is there any way I can add same on all pages using any trick or somthing?
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hreflang tags implementation not reflecting in Google Search results
My website homepage has 3 versions: one for India (unitedwecare.test/in), one for Canada (unitedwecare.test/ca) and one for rest of world (unitedwecare.test/). All the rest of the pages are the same. ...
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hreflang tag to be added on each page of the website or only on homepage?
I'm planning to add hreflang attribute to my websites which are in different languages, including my main website which is in English. So I have few questions regarding this.
Is the hreflang ...
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Recommended approach for slug generation with multiple languages
I am building a website that will be available in multiple countries. Each country's content will be unique to that country, but each country's content will be offered in multiple languages, using the ...
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*Example* Is this the correct use of hreflang & canonical reference
Not to pick on Xero, but I'm wondering if this is a good example of hreflang & canonical use.
https://www.xero.com/uk/resources/small-business-guides/
https://www.xero.com/nz/resources/small-...
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Switching from single to multi language website - indexing problem and lost rank
I have a website which used to be to available in a single language website: French. We wanted to purpose our product in other language (English, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.)
First, we have changed the ...
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What should the hreflang be for sites with more than 3 languages containing child pages?
We've got a domain: https://www.example.com/
Right now the domain is pointing directly to the page. We are based in Germany. So actually the site should be directing to https://www.example.com/de, ...
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How to avoid hreflang return errors with URL that contain parameters
I'm getting HREF no return errors in search console and I don't understand why.
We have a page that contains buttons for get multiple pages of results.
URL structure:
Base page: `https://example....
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What do I gain (lose) by telling (or not) Google about my website in other countries? Different ccTLDs and different languages
If I have two versions of my website hosted in different ccTLDs for countries with different languages.
What do I gain (lose) by telling (or not) Google about my website in those other countries?
Is ...
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When to use attribute rel="canonical", rel="alternate", and hreflang for the link tag
I have this pages:
https://domain.tld/fr/post/mon-premier-article
https://domain.tld/fr/post/my-first-post
https://domain.tld/fr/post/mi-primera-publicacion
Same for site in English...
https://domain....
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How to deal with UGC in different language than website?
Our website is available in six different languages. Users have a profile that they can fill with text-based information.
This leads to the following issue: The information given by the user will be ...
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Sitemap File for Multiple Languages
Hi Currently my site is in 3 languages:- English, French, Dutch.
My main sitemap file is example.com/sitemap.xml
I have 2 questions:
Since I don't have a root folder for other languages (I only have ...
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Missing reciprocal hreflang (no return-tag). Some pages don't include hreflang links to all the other pages of the group
There is some error when testing my site in https://ahrefs.com/:
Missing reciprocal hreflang (no return-tag)
It suggests:
Why and how to fix
Issue details
Confirmation (return) links are missing ...
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Hreflang conflicts with canonical in source code
A report in SEMRush has flagged an issue with hreflang conflicting with rel=canonical but I'm not sure how to resolve the issue or get to the bottom of it. Has anyone else experienced this and can ...
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Do I need to use "hreflang" when expanding a website to a new country using a different ccTLD domain
I have a website that has really good SEO in Portugal.
I use a ccTLD .pt domain, so it's automatically geotargeted for portuguese audience.
But now I'm expanding the website to Brazil. And I'll use a ...
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