Hreflang tag on every page?

[DigitalThirdCoast]

Hello Moz Community,

I'm working with a client who has translated their top 50 landing pages into Spanish. It's a large website and we don't have the resources to properly translate all pages at once, so we started with the top 50. We've already translated the content, title tags, URLs, etc. and the content will live in it's own /es-us/ directory. The client's website is set up in a way that all content follows a URL structure such as: https://www.example.com/en-us/.

• For Page A, it will live in English at: https://www.example.com/en-us/page-a
• For Page A, it will live in Spanish at https://www.example.com/es-us/page-a ("page-a" may vary since that part of the URL is translated)

From my research in the Moz forums and Webmaster Support Console, I've written the following hreflang tags:

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For Page B, it will follow the same structure as Page A, and I wrote the corresponding hreflang tags the same way. My question is, do both of these tags need to be on both the Spanish and English version of the page? Or, would I put the "en-us" hreflang tag on the Spanish page and the "es-us" hreflang tag on the English page? I'm thinking that both hreflang tags should be on both the Spanish and English pages, but would love some clarification/confirmation from someone that has implemented this successfully before.

[gfiorelli1]

HI!

As the previous answer says, you must always present all the countries and languages (or just languages) related hreflang annotations as many are the multicountry/multilingual version of your site.

So your own first question (My question is, do both of these tags need to be on both the Spanish and English version of the page?) is the correct answer.

[AdiRste]

Hi there!

Yes, if you have multiple language versions of a URL, each language page must identify all language versions, including itself. If you add any more languages or regions later, all pages will have to refer to that new language and itself also.