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What is a hreflang attribute?
Hreflang is an HTML or tag attribute that tells search engines the relationship between pages in different languages on your website. Google uses the attribute to serve the correct regional or language URLs in its search results based on the searcher’s country and language preferences.
What is the lang attribute in HTML?
The HTML lang attribute is used to identify the language of text content on the web. This information helps search engines return language specific results, and it is also used by screen readers that switch language profiles to provide the correct accent and pronunciation.
How do you say hreflang?
Many people know it’s something they should use, but don’t know why or what exactly hreflang is, let alone how to say it. It is pronounced H-ref-lang by the way!
What is use of lang attribute?
What is the hreflang tag attribute in Google?
What are hreflang tag attributes? The hreflang attribute (also referred to as rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x”) tells Google which language you are using on a specific page, so the search engine can serve that result to users searching in that language.
Also you can add hreflang attributes using two plugins: Language selector related (free plugin). This plugin allows you insert hreflang attributes in your posts, pages, categories and tags, even if your websites are located in different hostings. You’ll have to install the plugin on each language version.
What do you need to know about hreflang?
The first specifies the URL of the alternate Italian version of the page, and the second is a self-referencing tag that points back to the page itself. The Italian page would also need both of these hreflang tags. Sidenote.
How to make a hreflang for an alternate page?
hreflang=“x”: It’s alternate because it’s in a different language, and that language is x. href=“https://example.com/alternate-page”: The alternate page can be found at this URL. Constructing a hreflang tag is as simple as looking up the code for your chosen language and filling in the tag.