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Using href lang tag for multi-regional targeting on the same page
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Hi,
I have the site au.example.com and I ranked on google AustraliaI would like to be ranked also in Google New Zeland for the same page (au.example.com)
Because they are geographically & culturally close
Can I place href lang tag for both countries and present the same page
The code should look like:
OR should i have create a different page for New Zealand (for eample: http://au.example.com/EN-NZ)
And the code will look like:
What will work better or there is other solution?
Hope I’m clear..
Thanks!
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Thank for your replay!
Is it have to be a different subdomain or can i place it as a subfolder on au.example.com/
and place the hreflang tags?
Thanks!
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Duplicate the content onto nz.example.com and then use the hreflang tags.
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