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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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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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Use canonical and alternate URL correctly?
Hey @WarrenH and @Maximillian Laumeister,
thx for your answers. I found this website: https://www.searchviu.com/en/hreflang-canonical/
and if i understand it. The solution is:
Version blue:
DE ...
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Linked desktop and mobile pages- does SEO rank of mobile website even matter?
I have worked with websites using the approach you are mentioning. Here's my take:
Yes, it will be crawled and indexed (if you have internal links to all pages).
They should be identical if you are ...
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Multilanguage with canonicals and without duplicates
First of all, you are not going to generate duplicate content as there is only one URL in each language. You could generate duplicate content if you allow different access for the same content. For ...
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Can alternate language versions rely on canonicals to satisfy the requirement to point back to the original page?
The canonical+hreflang markup for your urls should be like:
www.example.com/en/main-content
<link rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/en/main-content">
<link rel="alternate" href="www....
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Google de-indexing our desktop site after we launched a separate mobile site with fewer pages
The best recommendation that I have is to be as explicit as possible for when you do have a mobile URL and for when you do not. The best method for this is to state this in your sitemap as is ...
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Use canonical and alternate URL correctly?
Edit: I am not entirely sure that this answer is correct, as pointed out by WarrenH in the comments. However I am leaving it up because it (and Warren's comments) have some potentially useful info.
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Can I assign multiple HREFLANG Attributes to the same Domain?
Yes it's perfectly fine to re-use the https://www.example.com host as both the en-us and the x-default hreflang.
To be sure, you can use the International Targeting Report to debug possible issues ...
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Use of canonical tag on website with different language versions AND separate mobile versions for each page
First, just to clarify, when you use a canonical tag, you have to use it in the actual canonical page and in the alternate version.
So, https://www.example.com/ should have the tag:
<link rel=&...
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When to use attribute rel="canonical", rel="alternate", and hreflang for the link tag
Here is a real-world example. In this case, EN (https://www.example.com) is the default language, and the other languages are alternates.
<link href="https://www.example.com" rel="...
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Applying hreflang and canonical to a website with multiple domains and subfolders with different languages
You shouldn't be using x-default because it is for a catch all page to direct users to the correct language. See: Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages
You should ...
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In 2020, is there an established approach to describe an international site using XML sitemaps?
The answers are all here:
Tell Google about localized versions of your page
Two of the most important key points to note are:
Each language version must list itself as well as all other language ...
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Giving alternate to pdf which is a duplicate to Web page
If the html page and the pdf document have the same content i see no possibilities to rank them both.
I would index and let rank the html page and canonicalize pdf document to the html page with ...
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Google de-indexing our desktop site after we launched a separate mobile site with fewer pages
For pages where you have both desktop and mobile versions of the page:
On your example.com page, put a canonical pointing to the example.com page and an alternate pointing to the m.example.com page.
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Hreflang for regions (like states and provinces) within a country
In terms of hreflang you can't specify your content more detailedly as with the schema of language and country.
I would however highly recommend to make use of structured data, specially https://...
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Hreflangs and canonicals. Should I chose the canonical version of the page for hreflang tags?
If parameter is not affecting content than you need to specify passive typed parameter in URL Parameters tool and use your first solution:
<link href="https://mywebsite.com/ru/some-page.php" rel="...
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Hreflang for regions (like states and provinces) within a country
The HTML5 specification defines hreflang like this:
The hreflang attribute on a elements that create hyperlinks, if present, gives the language of the linked resource. It is purely advisory. The ...
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Tagging different currency pages for multi-currency webshop
I think you should be trying to use rel=canonical pointing to the page that you want indexed by Google. In the event that you do want two of the same pages ranking on Google for some reason because of ...
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Canonical and Alternate Tags for Mobile First Indexing
I don't think what you're asking is what you really want to do.
If you are sure you only really want to have the mobile view used for all users, and get rid of the non-mobile template altogether (...
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Canonical and Alternate Tags for Mobile First Indexing
Point your entire www site to the m site with canonical on each page.
It's also better of you can create a responsive site that works on desktop and mobile as most sites have moved away from the ...
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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?
I think you do want to put several hreflang tags on each of your pages, if you have the page in several alternate languages. This will help Google understand and crawl your site.
The hreflang ...
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Can you tell Google that the same URL is available in 2 languages depending on the browser language?
In theory you should be able to tell Google that the same URL is available in either language depending on browser language. Google announced about 2 years ago that they would start supporting that....
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Using alternate+hreflang to link to pages with different content (e.g., Guardian’s country-specific editions)?
Yes, this doesn’t seem to be correct.
HTML defines that alternate+hreflang is for translations:
If the alternate keyword is used with the hreflang attribute, and that attribute’s value differs ...
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Should I use rel="alternate" on different domains?
Generally, in terms of SEO it's better to host everything under the same roof, but if you do want to provide more personal approach using specific country top level domains then you can, using ...
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