When should you use hreflang?

When should you use hreflang?

Introduced by Google in December 2011, the hreflang attribute allows you to show search engines what the relationship is between web pages in alternate languages. It’s useful when you’ve created content that’s specific to a local audience.

Does hreflang affect SEO?

Search engines ignore any invalid hreflang tags, meaning that they may overlook alternate versions of your page. This is bad for SEO because it means search engines may not be able to show the most appropriate version of your page to users.

Do I need hreflang?

Step 1: Determine whether you need hreflang annotations on your website. It’s quite simple: As soon as there is more than one version of your website for users from different countries or if your website is available in different languages, you should consider implementing hreflang annotations on your website.

Do you need canonical with hreflang?

hreflang annotations are okay for URLs that point to themselves via canonical tag and for URLs that do not have canonical tags.

Are hreflang tags important?

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 I find my hreflang tags?

Simply go to the hreflang checker page, enter the URL of your website, select which search engine you’d like to ensure your hreflang tags are recognized by and then click on ‘Test URL’. The results will show something like this – depending on how many languages you’ve added to your website.

How important is hreflang for SEO?

Where do I put hreflang tags?

Add hreflang to php file. To access this file, you’ll need to navigate to Appearance > Theme Editor, or use File Transfer Protocol (FTP). In this example, the tags need to be added to the English language content. The x-default and English hreflang tags also point to the English content page.

What is alternate link?

An alternate base URL is a domain (or subdomain) that you own and points to your website. For example, www.cpanel.net directs users to the homepage of www.cpanel.com. As mentioned, there are many reasons you might want to use an alternate base URL, which we’ll look at more closely in a moment.

What will happen if the title tag is too long on Google search result?

Yes, if your title is too long to be fully visible in search results, the words listed after the cutoff still weigh more heavily on search results than any other content on the page.

How long should the title tag be on a webpage?

There is no one way to optimize a particular webpages title tags, this webpages title tag is relatively long in keywords (9 words), but not particularly long in terms of characters (48 characters) and covers a lot of potential SERPs. If you browse through the articles posted on this site you will find many have quite long title tags.

When does Google ignore a long title tag?

Long title tags are truncated by Google when they exceed a specific number of pixels, but this does not mean Google ignores the truncated keywords. Google uses the entire title tag towards a webpages SERPs, even if the title is 50 keywords long!

Is the h1 tag the same as the title tag?

In short, everything—they’re entirely different HTML-tags. The confusion arises because title and H1-tag copy is often the same. For example, here’s the H1-tag from our list of 75 SEO tips. From a copy standpoint, it’s the same as the title tag.

What to keep in mind when crafting a title tag?

Here are a few other things to keep in mind when crafting title tags: Write for humans, not search engines: Don’t shoehorn a bunch of unnatural-looking keywords in your title tags. It’s not 1998!; Make sure all title tags are unique (no matter what): Duplicate title tags are a common problem.