If you find a page with an incorrect canonical tag

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Having two or more conflicting references will confuse search engines and they may end up ignoring both hreflang attributes. How to fix review the affecte page. Then check for errors in the urls that reference the page in their hreflang attributes. Remove the incorrect hreflang attributes. And leave only one correct attribute for each language. 4. Lack of mutual hreflang (no return tag) this issue occurs when the page declare in the hreflang annotation lacks a confirme (return) link. Why is this a problem hreflang tags are bidirectional (that is.

If page a links to page b in an hreflang comment. Page France WhatsApp Number Data  b must also link back to page a). How to fix review the affecte pages and add bidirectional hreflang tags if necessary. Here is another way to check this problem.…. . Go to the international targeting report in the old version of google search console and select the languages tab. Any issues relate to missing return tags will be flagge. This report also flags issues using non-existent language (or language+region) codes. 5. Hreflang points to pages that lack specifications this problem occurs when one or more pages reference non-canonical urls in their hreflang tags. Why is this a problem rel=alternate hreflang=x will instruct search engines to display the translate (localize) version of the page.

While the rel=canonical attribute will mark that this is not the standard (canonical) version. These two attributes contradict each other and can confuse search engines. How to fix review the affecte page and modify its hreflang annotation so that it points only to the canonical url. Alternatively.. Remove it from the page to ensure that the hreflang attribute is correctly understood and followe by search engines. Are there multiple versions of the page in the same language? Google may treat them as duplicate pages and select only one url as the canonical url. For example. Let's say there are two product pages. One for the unite states ("En-us") and the other for the unite kingdom ("En-gb").