Tag: hreflang

seo – hreflang region targeting – Several regions are displayed in SERPS

I'm a bit clueless with one of my websites.

The Hreflang seems to be installed correctly and most regions are selected as targets in the international targeting report, apart from the EU, as I can not target all of Europe.

However, several regions are indexed and Google does not recognize this in the language report

In GSC

Your site does not have hreflang tags. Google uses Hreflang tags to tailor the user's language setting to the correct variation of your pages.

I used https://technicalseo.com/tools/hreflang/ which was bug

Missing region-independent link for this language (s)

& http://hreflang.ninja

Language region code does not have a standalone language code

In GSC

Your site does not have hreflang tags. Google uses Hreflang tags to tailor the user's language setting to the correct variation of your pages.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what it could be?

XML Sitemap Best Practice for Multilingual Websites – Should I list my URLs in any language or is it sufficient to use rel = "alternate" + hreflang?

I am working on the sitemaps of a multilingual website and have doubts about the best way to refer to each language version of a page.

For a bit of background, the site points to around 20,000 places with community commentary and descriptions. The website is available in 5 languages ​​(website.com/fr; website.com/it …)

Currently, my sitemap only refers to English pages and in the sitemap on every page I have specified for any language (as well as English) as recommended by Google.

In the Google search console, about 75% of the pages with valid coverage are described as "indexed, not submitted to the sitemap", so I think the alternative link with the "hreflang" attribute is not enough to display the page for " to "Google" to index it.

Do I have to list and use the pages in all 5 languages ​​in my sitemap? at every link?

Drupal SEO: How does HREFLANG affect a redirected URL for EN-US?

I do some international SEO work on a Drupal site. I noticed this on the EN-US homepage:

In particular, pay attention to the subfolder "/ home" there. I've been told Drupal needs it and it's standard material. However, if you go to this URL, it will be redirected twice. Once to the homepage (307) and then to the https version (301)

The english page is the "standard" page. The other languages ​​are a perfect match for all URLs in Hreflang and Canonical directives. (/ france, / germany, / etc)

From a SEO point of view, the discrepancies and redirects disturb me.

What effect would these differences have on SEO?

Drupal SEO: How does HREFLANG affect a redirected URL for EN-US?

I do some international SEO work on a Drupal site. I noticed this on the EN-US homepage:

In particular, pay attention to the subfolder "/ home" there. I've been told Drupal needs it and it's standard material. However, if you go to this URL, it will be redirected twice. Once to the homepage (307) and once to the https version (301)

The english page is the "standard" page. The other languages ​​are a perfect match for all URLs in Hreflang and Canonical directives. (/ france, / germany, / etc)

From a SEO point of view, the discrepancies and redirects disturb me.

What effect would these differences have on SEO?

SEO – Hreflang alternative for multilingual websites with pagination

So I'm setting up Hreflang tags on an ecommerce site. The sites are located in the US, Canada, etc. The Canadian site will have fewer products than the American site, which means that there are not as many pages in each category as there are on the US site. What is the right handling of Hreflang tags on these additional category pages?

In other words, the American site may have a category with 3 product pages, while the Canadian only has 2 product pages. What happens to this extra American category page? Should it receive a Hreflang tag that points to the first page of the corresponding Canadian category? Should not get Hreflang tags because there is no real Canadian counterpart?

Does it really matter if a canonical day refers to the first page of the series?

Hreflang tags work for some pages, but not for others

Hello

We have set up our site with several country directories. We have Hreflang tags on all websites. It works mostly fine, but in some regions, the pages for the UK or .com are displayed instead of the local versions for Canada / Ireland. We know everything is set up correctly as it works for 80% of the pages. Our website agency has also confirmed that everything is set up correctly.

Does anyone know why some of our keywords might show the wrong pages? It only happens for a few pages.

It makes me crazy! The keywords also do not show any data in Ahrefs, as the local website is not displayed, but in fact, we rank # 2 or 3 with the UK or .com domain. For 30 watched keywords, this only happens for 4-5.

Many Thanks
SEMrush

8 – How do I remove unwanted hreflang links from the page?

I have a content page in English with Japanese and Chinese translations. Even if I did not publish the translation nodes, the page source code displays the Hreflang attributes for the unpublished languages ​​in the header.

This seems to be generated automatically. And when I do a test for SEO, this voice connection throws 404 errors because they are not published. How do I remove the unpublished links from hreflang? (And it should be added automatically when I publish the translations)

seo – Can I assign several HREFLANG attributes to a domain?

I'm working on a site that targets multiple regions and languages, using the following domains:

  • www.example.com (American English for US traffic);
  • en-gb.example.com (British English targeting UK traffic);
  • en-au.example.com (Australian English targeting Australian traffic)

To better understand these regional and language variations, I've assigned the following href long Attributes within the keywords:

x-default

In the USA I would not only speak English in a targeted way, I would also like to speak English https://www.example.com Domain as a "catch-all" page, which targets all traffic that does not meet the criteria of the other domains. Would it be okay in that sense, the hreflang = "x-default" Attribute so that the https://www.example.com Domain ends with an additional one href long Attribute points to it?