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Dear Team,
I have been cloning my site in EN, IT and DE during the last couple of weeks and I would like to include the Hreflang beacon, so my sites won’t be considered as copies by google. The procedure is quite complex though, and I’m not asking you to do it for me, because I know it’s not in your scope of practice. But as I read that these beacons use the languages codes and the country code, do you think that the extensions existing on my site are useful for this purpose ?
Thanks for the advice and kind regards,
NatachaHey HulaSlim,
Thank you for the inquiry.
The simplest solution if you want to avoid duplicate content is to set a canonical URL using SEO plugins such as Yoast. When you set a canonical URL, search engines can easily identify the source page, which serves as the basis for the rest of the versions or languages, thus avoiding duplicated content. However, we are not sure if canonical URLs work the same on multilang sites.
// https://yoast.com/features/canonical-url-tags/
If you want to implement hreflang instead, this plugin might help.
// https://wordpress.org/plugins/hreflang-manager-lite/
Best regards,
Ismaela good multilang plugin should set those links in the head section. WPML does in this way ( depending on your choice – how to handle the multilang sites – as addendum – as subdomain or maybe as extra domains )
f.e.:<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" href="https://your-domain.com"> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-de" href="https://your-domain.com/?lang=de">so inspect your head section if those entries are made.
Dear Team
Thank you for your different advice.
Putting the Hreflang in the head seems indeeed the best option, but I translated all myself, and don’t use WPML. So I downloaded the Hreflang manager plugin and indexed everything. But I don’t see any differencies in the url, and the speed is not affected. How can I see if it worked ? I never refilled the information “script 1” as I didn’t know what to put – latin ? among the many other choises like japanese, cyrillic, arabic, coptic, etc. it seems the best choice, but as the denomination is very precise (even latin gaelic is possible) I was not sure if it refers to the latin language or to latin alphabet, and so I left that empty. Maybe it didn’t work because of that ?
Thanks again for your advice.
Kind regards,
NatachaI figured it must be the alphabet, so I put Latin.
So shall I do the same in all the sub-directories, or specifying the 4 languages for each page as I did in the “main” site (French) is enough ?Hi,
Thank you for the update.
I never refilled the information “script 1” as I didn’t know what to put – latin ?
The writing systems for English (EN), German (DE), Italian (IT), and French (FR) are based on the Latin script.
We can’t find the hreflang link in the head tag, and when we ran a test using an online tool, it didn’t provide any values in the hreflang Tag column.
// https://technicalseo.com/tools/hreflang/
You may want to contact the plugin author for additional assistance.
Best regards,
Ismael
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