Hreflang, canonicals and international SEO, explained.
Hreflang mistakes don't throw an error. Your tag just gets quietly dropped, and Google serves whichever language version it feels like instead. That silence is why hreflang trips up so many site...
Read moreIf you've ever opened your site's HTML and spotted both lang="es" on the <html> tag and a pile of hreflang links sitting in the <head>, you've probably wondered whether you're looking at two names...
Read moreIf you searched for hreflang WordPress because an audit tool flagged your multilingual site, here's the short version: WordPress itself does not write hreflang tags, and neither does your SEO...
Read moreA hreflang sitemap is an XML sitemap that carries your hreflang annotations as xhtml:link elements inside each <url> block, instead of (or alongside) <link> tags in the page's <head>. It is not a...
Read moreHere's the mistake I see most often on multilingual sites: someone treats hreflang and canonical as two settings that just need to "agree." They don't work that way. A hreflang canonical conflict...
Read moreIf an audit report just told you your site has a hreflang self referencing problem, your first instinct is probably to open the page source, find the line where a page points back to its own URL,...
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