Advanced Hreflang !

[TeespringMoz]

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.

example.com/utm_source=tpi

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

[TeespringMoz]

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!

[Keszi]

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