Preeti Gupta · @ilovechoclates_
91 followers · 258 posts · Server seocommunity.social

I am a bit confused between Hreflang and Canonical tag.

Suppose one page has content in English. But the same content is in French and Spanish too.

All three pages are self-referencing to themselves (self-canonical). And they have specified English as x-default.

My question is: Will this not create duplicate issues because each URL is essentially the same content (and they are self-canonicalizing)

This can be a rookie question, so go easy on me lol.

#seo #canonical #hreflang

Last updated 1 year ago

Daniel Mealo · @dmealo
10 followers · 75 posts · Server mastodon.world

@johnmu
1) Is there a definitive list of languages that they recognize? For example, are any ISO 639-3 language codes recognized in hreflang where an ISO 639-1 code isn't available?
2) If Google does not recognize the language, is it going to hurt the site if it is not deindexed?
3) Now that Internationalization report is deprecated, is there a way to check the site to see if there are pages that Google thinks are garbage?

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#seo #google #hreflang #localized

Last updated 2 years ago

Daniel Mealo · @dmealo
10 followers · 74 posts · Server mastodon.world

@johnmu I am consulting on a large site with 100s of less common languages and am running into situations where the site's needs exceed the guidance at developers.google.com/search/d on hreflang...

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#seo #google #hreflang #localized

Last updated 2 years ago

Daniel Mealo · @dmealo
10 followers · 73 posts · Server mastodon.world

@johnmu I am consulting on a large site with 100s of less common languages and am running into situations where the site's localization needs exceed the guidance at developers.google.com/search/d on hreflang...

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#seo #google #hreflang #localized

Last updated 2 years ago

AJ Kohn · @ajkohn
748 followers · 602 posts · Server mastodon.social

I really wish Google would get around to deprecating hreflang because it's dreadfully difficult to explain to clients why these configurations work in theory but rarely do in practice.

I mean, ya'll said 60% of the web is duplicate content and I'll bet dollars to donuts that half of that is specious hreflang.

#seo #hreflang

Last updated 2 years ago