How important are hreflang tags?
The hreflang attribute tells Google which language and country you are targeting for a specific page. This allows the search engine to serve the page result to users searching in that specific language and country.
How do you write hreflang?
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.
What is hreflang checker?
The Hreflang Tag Checker is designed to automate the process of checking a site’s hreflang tag deployment. The tool takes a readout of a URL’s hreflang tags, and then crawls them to assess if they back reference your current URL.
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.
When to add hreflang tags to a website?
In plain English, that means that every page should have a self-referential hreflang tag—i.e., one that points back to itself. So, if we want to add a hreflang tags between an English page (https://example.com/hello) and an Italian page (https://example.com/ciao), each should have the following hreflang tags:
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.
Is there a hreflang tag generator for the UK?
Not all of the codes are intuitive (for example, the code for the UK is “gb” not “uk”), so double check before pasting the wrong code all over your site. This hreflang tag generator can help. Image from Aleyda Solis’s blog post announcing the hreflang tag generator.