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Which is the best choice for SEO sitemap for multilingual website?
You're better off creating a multilingual sitemap, just to avoid any source of confusion. The format you have shown is correct.
In fact, you could even drop the hreflang declarations in your page ...
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How does Google determine duplicate content when it's translated into different languages?
...is it considered to be duplicate content if the site is in another
language which happens to be an exact duplicate?
Google doesn't consider the same content translated into different languages ...
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International Targeting "no return tags"
Whereas the answer by Andrew makes sense and is in line with the official response by Google, I see 3 types of errors in my website:
A URL containing an URL-encoded URL is linked back using the ...
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How to avoid hreflang return errors with URL that contain parameters
The problem you have is caused by the combination of canonical and hreflang.
Your setup
Given your example: for the URL https://example.com/au/publications?count=50&page=4 you specify the ...
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Can hreflang be placed on the body of the HTML?
Google supports:
Link Hreflang
HTTP Header Hreflang
Sitemap Hreflang
Using <link rel="alternate" href="#" hreflang="en-ie" /> within the <body>and not the <head>, testing it in W3C ...
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Recommended approach for slug generation with multiple languages
You'll have better user metrics, if you create slugs in language according to the language version:
users will easier remind about page addresses to visit them twice,
users will faster understand ...
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Hreflang for regions (like states and provinces) within a country
In short, no. The "Supported language/region codes" section of Google's hreflang guidelines is fairly unambiguous:
The value of the hreflang attribute identifies the language (in ISO 639-1 format) ...
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French language comes up before English language site for site: search on English version of Google
To answer your questions:
If you do not have localized country-specific versions of your site live at the https://www.construct.net/en-us and https://www.construct.net/fr-fr URLs, then remove those ...
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I used rel="canonical" and hreflang="x-default", but global site is missing and receiving "no return tags" error
The hreflang tags are on all these URLs yet Google hasn't pick up the global site
Assuming that you're intending the last link to be the "global site", since you indicated that to be default page ...
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How reliably does Google determine a user's region, in order to pick the right hreflang option (specifically en-gb vs. en-nz)?
We would set up an hreflang="en" or hreflang="x-default" for the primary site, and an hreflang=en-uk just for the UK site
Couple of corrections here.
For the global English content hreflang="en" ...
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What is the solution for "Submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console beta?
You explicitely requested an indexing of some urls, through sitemap or webmaster tools, which are duplicates without canonical. The question is rather why do you want duplicated urls are explicitely ...
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What is the solution for "Submitted URL not selected as canonical" in Google Search Console beta?
First you have to find the duplicates. It would be nice if Google told you in Search Console which URL it thinks is duplicate, but they don't divulge this information as far as I've been able to ...
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Are hreflangs needed in the XML sitemap if they are used in the head of each page?
Wherever you put the hreflang is fine you have to use only one of the above methods. Find the methods suggested by Google here: Tell Google about localized versions of your page
Methods for ...
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Hreflang attribute on <a> tag
The a hreflang attribute is indeed a semantically correct way to signal that a linked page is in a different language than the current page.
Regarding SEO, it never makes sense to worry about the ...
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Google search console says 2 redirect errors out of 15 pages using hreflang
First,
<link rel="alternate" href="https://359north.com/index-fr.html" hreflang="fr" />
This is not a conventional way to specify a multi-regional/multilingual ...
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How should I add a hreflang to the existing website
Best practice is to leave your main language to be as it was and add the new desired language with /uk and hreflang="en-GB".
I also recommend you that make sure hreflang="de-DE" ...
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How does Google determine duplicate content when it's translated into different languages?
The purpose of hreflang is to help Google with geotargeting your website, especially if you are having all your language versions in different subfolders on a gTLD domain (like .com, .net, .org etc.). ...
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How should I approach sitemap.xml, hreflang and regions for my website
Yes, it's correct to target the countries in the sitemap.xml and point them to the regional url.
And yes, you can use the same URL for multiple locations.
You might want to simplify it here though, ...
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"No return tags" when using a XML sitemap
in short: yes. You last example is correct. Each sitemap URL, which is <loc>, should have its hreflang counterparts (if any).
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hreflang tags in sitemaps - your site has no hreflang tags
I had a similar issue: the tags seemed to be right but they just wouldn't work.
So I did an experiment!
I created a very simple domain that had the tags configured in a way that clearly conformed to ...
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hreflang tag to be added on each page of the website or only on homepage?
Yes, every page with an alternate. This is clearly stated in the specification:
rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is used as a page level, not a site level, and you need to mark up each set of pages, ...
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Is Double-Annotating HREFLANG always alright? What if I remove one of them?
Yes you can use the same URL for multiple locations, John Muller from Google replied in the comments to a similar question here: How should I approach sitemap.xml, hreflang and regions for my website
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Which is the best choice for SEO sitemap for multilingual website?
In your last example, I'm not sure this will create a benefit in your sitemap:
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://www.domain.com/what-we-do" />
This is because I ...
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Is defining an hreflang sufficient to avoid duplicate content penalties between US and UK sites with nearly identical content?
This is a difficult question because even with hreflang markup, Google doesn't always excuse duplicate content.
So the trick is to make the content sufficiently different. For online stores, this is ...
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Why is Google reporting that hreflang URLs in my sitemap do not have "return tags"?
I think norcal johnny is incorrect. Yes, it's not ideal to have content for Dutch users on a .de domain but it's not technically incorrect to do so. And the error you are seeing is a technical error.
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Internationalisation Hreflang - site traffic destroyed
Here is the full correct targeting:
<!-- UK -->
<link rel="alternate" href="http://blah.com/stuff" hreflang="en-gb" />
<!-- EU Targeting-->
<link rel="alternate" href="http://...
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Google search in Dutch and results in English
Are you doing the search on google.nl from The Netherlands? My guess is "no".
You indicate that the locale for the Dutch site is nl-nl. That means "Dutch speakers in the Netherlands". If you ...
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Correct hreflang tag for Brazilian Portuguese speakers in the UK
Unfortunately, the hreflang standard does not specify regional varieties of languages. You can target by language, or by language and region, but that should be enough to target most users accurately.
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Redirect to canonical URL gives hreflang error in Google Webmaster Tools
Your configuration is incorrect. Rather than permanently redirect the root to https://www.amolelingue.com/en.
Either:
Do a conditional redirect, i.e. test the user's browser language and do a ...
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Can hreflang be placed on the body of the HTML?
No.
The only Link elements permitted in the <body> section are ones that are specified in the 'body-ok' list. You can find a copy of the table here:
https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#body-...
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