Questions tagged [rel-alternate]
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SEO / Same product for sale on on own e-commerce and marketplace: alternate links for marketplace listings?
Assume that a product is for sale on both own e-commerce and marketplace(s), with the same picture, quite a similar title, and description.
Although they might be some differences like a more detailed ...
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Use of canonical tag on website with different language versions AND separate mobile versions for each page
I have a website where every page (http://www.example.com) has a separate mobile version (http://m.example.com). And I simply use the rel="canonical" tag on one of those two pages to avoid ...
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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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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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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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Switching between alternate CSS stylesheets - what are all the available settings?
What are all the available settings for stylesheet <link> elements?
When deploying CSS stylesheet <link> elements, what are all the available settings?
A persistent stylesheet looks like ...
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In 2020, is there an established approach to describe an international site using XML sitemaps?
I've been writing XML Sitemaps for a decade, but I've never before needed to write an XML Sitemap for an international site.
It occurs to me that there are three clear approaches (and there may be ...
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Can alternate URLs for hreflinks be in different XML sitemap files when using <xml:link rel="alternate"
Regarding the XML sitemaps (that use alternative languages), in this page it is specified the following:
Common Mistakes
Here are the most common mistakes with hreflang usage:
Missing return links: ...
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Can I assign multiple HREFLANG Attributes to the same Domain? [duplicate]
I am working on a website, which is looking to targeting multiple Regions and Languages, using the following Domains:
www.example.com (American English targeting US Traffic);
en-gb.example.com (...
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How to avoid Duplicate Content issues when dealing with 'Language Only' and 'Language and Location' URLs [duplicate]
I am working on an eCommerce site, which wants to target the UK, US and Australia. Due to their cultural variations in the English language, and the fact they all have their own currency, the website'...
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Should mobile sitemaps point to canonical urls
I've recently developed a mobile-friendly version of an old site.
The old site still does really well in the SERPs for key terms, so I don't want to redirect everyone (yet). But I do want to give ...
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Use canonical and alternate URL correctly?
Im not sure on handle the canonical link and the alternate tag correctly.
Example: One product "tshirt" with multiple versions (blue, red)
Version blue:
DE URL: ..de/kleidung/tshirt-de-blue
<...
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Does rel='alternate' have to show protocol [duplicate]
I'm using rel='alternate' like this:
http://example.com/_spanish/index.htm'
hreflang='es'
Is it acceptable to leave out the HTTP protocol and use
link rel='alternate' href='//example.com/...
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Giving alternate to pdf which is a duplicate to Web page
I have a webpage namely - https://example.com/url/
I have generated a pdf with the same content of the above webpage namely - https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/url.pdf.
I have given ...
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Can alternate language versions rely on canonicals to satisfy the requirement to point back to the original page?
Say I have 4 URLs:
www.example.com/en/main-content
www.example.com/en/almost-identical-to-main-content
www.example.com/fr/main-content
www.example.com/fr/almost-identical-to-main-content
The ...
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Google de-indexing our desktop site after we launched a separate mobile site with fewer pages
Recently, we launched separate URL site m.example.com for mobile users. That was a mistake because we don't have corresponding pages on mobile for every page on the desktop version. We have fewer ...
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Multilanguage with canonicals and without duplicates
Website has two language versions of the pages with different URLs. Wordpress plug-in translates pages after selecting the language in the site menu, not automatically.
Am I doing the right thing if ...
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Hreflang for regions (like states and provinces) within a country
I'm working on a website which has different content depending on the province/state the user is from.
Is it valid to add the subdivision code to the hreflang like below?
<link rel="alternate" ...
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Tagging different currency pages for multi-currency webshop
I present two selections in my site; one is language (which will change the URL and content) and currency. The currency setting is applied via querystring, like page?curr=EUR, then it'll remember for ...
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Canonical and Alternate Tags for Mobile First Indexing
We have mobile & desktop websites running on different sub-domains (m. and www.). We want our mobile content to be crawled and treated as the primary site. How should I handle Canonical and ...
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Is it right to have alternate hreflang tags referencing the same pages in other languages for all pages of the website?
For an E-Commerce, is it right to have alternate tags referencing the same pages (in other languages obviously) for all pages of the website?
I'll explain better, a site with alternate tag in ...
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Can you tell Google that the same URL is available in 2 languages depending on the browser language?
For example, my home page is available in several language and the language displayed depends on the browser language.
I have added these 2 alternate links:
<link rel="alternate" href="http://...
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Using alternate+hreflang to link to pages with different content (e.g., Guardian’s country-specific editions)?
On the Guardian.co.uk homepage they have:
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk" hreflang="en-GB"/>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us" hreflang="...
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Google only serving m. results despite correct alternate/canonicals
This is for a client site. Google seems to only return mobile results for all search queries. The m. and desktop site are not competing or conflicting with each other however..
All m. pages have the ...
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Should I use rel="alternate" on different domains?
We're about to introduce a .com version of our website as well as a few additional ccTLD's and from what I've read, I'm unsure whether to be using a rel="alternate" tag or not.
The scenario:
We have ...
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Linked desktop and mobile pages- does SEO rank of mobile website even matter?
The question is somewhat similar to this post. The only difference is, we have desktop version as https://www.example.com/ and mobile version as https://www.example.com/m/. The desktop page has mobile ...
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Hreflangs and canonicals. Should I chose the canonical version of the page for hreflang tags?
So, basically we have implemented canonical tag, which points to the url with the parameters stripped. For instance, if somebody visits the page
https://mywebsite.com/en/some-page.php?someparameter=...
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Mobile version of a website showing up on my desktop google search
I search certain keywords in desktop google search and mobile version of my website shows up, vise versa.
I use some methods to solve this problem:
use <link rel="alternate"> and <link rel="...
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alternate vs. canoncial, which has preference?
I read https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066 but still would like to 'double check'.
Following situation:
Webshop with 3 languages (German, French, English).
Every page has the ...
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Is it dangerous to change the default language page to be the x-default page?
I haven't specify the x-default page yet. Instead of that the the baseurl of the website specified with <link rel=alternative> as the default language "Arabic".
Is it dangerous (I may lose ...
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Should I be using both "rel=canonical" and "rel="alternate" within my sitemap?
I followed this setup in my sitemap that Google outlines on this page: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en .
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/en</loc>
<xhtml:...
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Shall I add hreflang on pagination sites which are using rel="prev" and rel="next"?
At the moment I am using the current solution for pagination (without the view-all solution):
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/category/blablabla/page/2" />
<link rel="next" ...
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How to use rel=canonical/rel=alternate when number of items per page on each site are different?
I have a website that shows photos accessible from a gallery section (that shows relevant photo thumbnails) divided up into pages.
On the desktop version of the site, the gallery section is divided ...
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"no return tag error" despite correct tagging?
I structured my website following this tutorial that explains to do the following when you deal with profile pages that have menus translated but their contents are probably in the language of the ...
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Do I need to add <link rel="alternate"> for both HTTP and HTTPS?
The meta tag <link rel="alternate"> should be added for each language and subdomain with the same content right? But do I need to add 2 versions of each, namely http:// and https:// ?
Like this:...
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Is it mandatory to have unique titles (in H1 tag) on a mobile version of a page even if it contains rel=canonical?
So I finally ran screaming frog SEO spider on a number of my pages, and what I'm left with now are some duplicate titles on some of my mobile pages containing this HTML:
<link rel="canonical" href=...
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Does rel=canonical and rel=alternate make sense on pictures?
I have a desktop and a mobile site and I use rel=canonical and rel=alternate as recommended by google to link the corresponding html based pages of each site together.
I'm just wondering, because on ...
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Multiple canonical URLs for same page
I have an existing canonical URL in the form http://example.com/page1 for a page called http://example.com/page1.html and use .htaccess to rewrite the URL of anything without an extension so it ends ...
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Does hreflang and rel="alternate" work with completely different URLs?
I'm currently working on a project and it will support localization. I'm trying to find out in what sense the rel="alternate" and hreflang="" works. Does the URL have to be similar? Or can the entire ...
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Why don't search engines support JSON-LD + Schema.org as seperated endpoints via rel="alternate" or script src?
So the whole idea of JSON revolves around object->arrays presented in a simple text format. The LD variant is no different. When combined with Schema.org it turns into a flexible display API that many ...
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Rel Canonical for multiple versions of pagination for desktop and mobile
My website is primarily a photo gallery presentation site where the photo thumbnails (that link to the photos) are divided into pages. To maintain compatibility for all users, I give them the option ...
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How duplicate must two pages be in order for one to require rel=canonical?
I've been reading up on:
<link rel="canonical" href="(original url)">
And one thing that I'm trying to figure out is the lowest percent of duplication must any two pages need to be in order ...
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Is media=640px fixed in rel="alternate" for mobile version
In this Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs I'm curious if the
media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)
is fixed irrespective of the width of the mobile device.
In another words is the ...
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Can I use canonical or alternate URLs such that there is SEO benefit to both sites with duplicate local content?
My company manages a network of local websites, all of which run on separate subdomains. Each subdomain represents a different locality (eg brooklyn.example.com, queens.example.com).
Often, we have ...
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Linking desktop and mobile pages
Since I'm a non-technical person willing to enter the mobile space, would like to ask for some advice and the specific code to add to my pages if possible.
My desktop site is bilingual English/...
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Geotargeting rel alternate - how to launch an international site?
Hoping you can help me out with some best practice here. I run an Aussie based job board called the Backpacker Job Board. The site ranks really well and has plenty of traffic.
I want to launch a New ...
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Mark-up for desktop and separate mobile version of site, can they be used cross domain?
When there is a separate mobile version of a site on a different URL to the main site, Google suggests to use their Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs.
On the desktop page, add:
<link rel="...
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link rel="alternate" and hreflang : targeting country independently of language
The content of the website www.example.com is highly dependent on the country of the user, but not so much on his language.
So far, the website is translate into two languages, "en" and "de", but it ...
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Should I redirect desktop users visiting mobile page to desktop version?
So I am redirecting mobile users to mobile version of the page and also have alternate attrubute set up for that:
<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="http://m....
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Would this be considered duplicate content for a multi-language site, and is it necessary to redirect by language?
Our company now has 2 domains linked to one FTP:
site.lt and site.eu
In the .lt site, we show the content in the local language
In the .eu site, we show foreign languages like site.eu/lv.
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