Advanced Hreflang !
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Hey Everyone:
We are currently implementing hreflang tags on our site, and we have many parameter pages with hreflang tags; however, I am afraid these may be counted as duplicate content without canonical tags.
href='http://example.com/de" hreflang="de" rel="alternate"
href='http://example.com/nl" hreflang="nl" rel="alternate"
href='http://example.com/fr" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate"
href='http://example.com/it" hreflang="it" rel="alternate"
I have two questions
1. On the parameter pages (which have hreflang tags like above) do we also need a canonical tag on example.com/utm_source_tpi pointing to example.com ?
2. On the homepage (page without the parameter), should I add a self referencing hreflang tag? (href="http://example.com/" hreflang="es")
Thanks so much for your help!
-K
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Hi Kezzi:
If the the utm pages (which are duplicates of the original page) have self-referencing canonical tags, won't they still be duplicates of the original page?
For example, let's say we have:
example.com/ and example.com/utm_source=tpi
All these pages have hrelfang, but the pages with utm are duplicates of the original, so I would assume that we need to have example.com/utm_source=tpi have a canonical tag pointing to example.com/
In addition, example.com/nl/utm_source=tpi would have a canonical tag pointing to example.com/nl/
Thanks!
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Hi!
First of all welcome to the community!
Regarding your question, I would implement a canonical which would self reference:
- on NL page for example example.com/nl/
- on DE page for example example.com/de/
- on the homepage example.com/
Regarding the hreflang implementation. You will always need to make a self reference in order to make it work. So for example on an inner page, called Sample you would have on all languages:
I hope this helps
Gr., Keszi
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