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  • ennovators
    ennovators last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 3:32 AM

    Hi everyone,

    got a quick question concerning the hreflang tag.

    I have a website with 2 different language versions targeting to the same region(Reason: The area is bilingual however not everyone speaks the other language fluently)

    Question:
    Can I use hreflang in that case like:

    Many thanks in advance

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    • DmitriiK
      DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by Nov 9, 2015, 12:11 PM Nov 9, 2015, 12:11 PM

      Sure, I did this: http://bfy.tw/2hTu

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      • ennovators
        ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by Nov 8, 2015, 8:19 AM Nov 8, 2015, 8:19 AM

        Hi Dmitrii,

        can you perhaps tell me the source, where you found the supported annotations above. Many Thanks

        DmitriiK 1 Reply Last reply Nov 9, 2015, 12:11 PM Reply Quote 0
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        • gfiorelli1
          gfiorelli1 @ennovators last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 6:42 PM Oct 14, 2015, 6:42 PM

          My answer is the correct. See what I replied above to Dmitrii

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          • gfiorelli1
            gfiorelli1 @DirkC last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 6:41 PM Oct 14, 2015, 6:41 PM

            Lol! You're right. I was indeed thinking about Belgium and not Netherlands 🙂

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            • gfiorelli1
              gfiorelli1 @DmitriiK last edited by Oct 15, 2015, 12:40 AM Oct 14, 2015, 6:40 PM

              It's a cultural thing. I'm that province of Italy people talk or Italian or German, so if you want to target both with your multilingual site you must tell it to Google with hreflang, even if it is not listed in the ISO chart.

              you do the same for targeting Spanish speaking people in the usa, for instance.

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              • DirkC
                DirkC @gfiorelli1 last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 5:42 PM Oct 14, 2015, 5:26 PM

                Gianluca - I guess this time it's my turn:  As far as I know they only have one official language in the Netherlands (Dutch) - I guess you refer to Belgium (3 official languages Dutch/French/German).

                It's a common error to make this mistake - but the difference is easy to spot: Belgium is qualified for Euro '16 - unlike the Netherlands 🙂

                gfiorelli1 1 Reply Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 6:41 PM Reply Quote 0
                • ennovators
                  ennovators @gfiorelli1 last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 4:34 PM Oct 14, 2015, 4:34 PM

                  Hi Gianluca,

                  Thank you for your reply. In fact I'm refering to that exact region. The difference to your CH examples are though, that in Switzerland, the 3 language regions are not the exact same "location".

                  In my case they are though so I got a bit confused.

                  So basically Im not saying, a specific region in Switzerland speaks French, another German and another Italian, but I say the exact same location/region speaks German and Italian.

                  gfiorelli1 1 Reply Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 6:42 PM Reply Quote 0
                  • DmitriiK
                    DmitriiK @gfiorelli1 last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 4:17 PM Oct 14, 2015, 4:17 PM

                    Well, I do see the ones you mentioned on that list, but not it-it or de-it.

                    gfiorelli1 1 Reply Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 6:40 PM Reply Quote 0
                    • gfiorelli1
                      gfiorelli1 @DmitriiK last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 4:29 PM Oct 14, 2015, 4:14 PM

                      Yes, it exists (it is Alto Agide/South Tirol), and it's the same case of Netherlands (fr-NL and de-NL) or Switzerland (it-CH, fr-CH and de-CH)

                      DmitriiK ennovators DirkC 3 Replies Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 5:26 PM Reply Quote 1
                      • gfiorelli1
                        gfiorelli1 last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 4:11 PM Oct 14, 2015, 4:11 PM

                        Yes, you can.

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                        • DmitriiK
                          DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 12:23 PM Oct 14, 2015, 12:23 PM

                          Interesting. Google search doesn't return anything on this locale.

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                          • ennovators
                            ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 12:14 PM Oct 14, 2015, 12:14 PM

                            yes, sure about that

                            DmitriiK 1 Reply Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 12:23 PM Reply Quote 0
                            • DmitriiK
                              DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 12:01 PM Oct 14, 2015, 12:01 PM

                              Are you sure that locale exists?

                              ennovators gfiorelli1 2 Replies Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 4:14 PM Reply Quote 0
                              • ennovators
                                ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 11:59 AM Oct 14, 2015, 11:59 AM

                                Hi Dmitrii,

                                many thanks for your reply. Great list, unfortunately I can't find my case. Though I think this list is not complete. E.x. I miss the the french speaking part in Italy for example,...

                                Helpful anyway though.

                                DmitriiK 1 Reply Last reply Oct 14, 2015, 12:01 PM Reply Quote 0
                                • DmitriiK
                                  DmitriiK last edited by Oct 14, 2015, 10:52 AM Oct 14, 2015, 10:52 AM

                                  Hi there.

                                  I found this list of all available locales, if locales you're trying to do are in this list, then go ahead, otherwise it won't work.

                                  P.S. List might be old and updated by now, but i don't think so.

                                  • af-ZA
                                  • am-ET
                                  • ar-AE
                                  • ar-BH
                                  • ar-DZ
                                  • ar-EG
                                  • ar-IQ
                                  • ar-JO
                                  • ar-KW
                                  • ar-LB
                                  • ar-LY
                                  • ar-MA
                                  • arn-CL
                                  • ar-OM
                                  • ar-QA
                                  • ar-SA
                                  • ar-SY
                                  • ar-TN
                                  • ar-YE
                                  • as-IN
                                  • az-Cyrl-AZ
                                  • az-Latn-AZ
                                  • ba-RU
                                  • be-BY
                                  • bg-BG
                                  • bn-BD
                                  • bn-IN
                                  • bo-CN
                                  • br-FR
                                  • bs-Cyrl-BA
                                  • bs-Latn-BA
                                  • ca-ES
                                  • co-FR
                                  • cs-CZ
                                  • cy-GB
                                  • da-DK
                                  • de-AT
                                  • de-CH
                                  • de-DE
                                  • de-LI
                                  • de-LU
                                  • dsb-DE
                                  • dv-MV
                                  • el-GR
                                  • en-029
                                  • en-AU
                                  • en-BZ
                                  • en-CA
                                  • en-GB
                                  • en-IE
                                  • en-IN
                                  • en-JM
                                  • en-MY
                                  • en-NZ
                                  • en-PH
                                  • en-SG
                                  • en-TT
                                  • en-US
                                  • en-ZA
                                  • en-ZW
                                  • es-AR
                                  • es-BO
                                  • es-CL
                                  • es-CO
                                  • es-CR
                                  • es-DO
                                  • es-EC
                                  • es-ES
                                  • es-GT
                                  • es-HN
                                  • es-MX
                                  • es-NI
                                  • es-PA
                                  • es-PE
                                  • es-PR
                                  • es-PY
                                  • es-SV
                                  • es-US
                                  • es-UY
                                  • es-VE
                                  • et-EE
                                  • eu-ES
                                  • fa-IR
                                  • fi-FI
                                  • fil-PH
                                  • fo-FO
                                  • fr-BE
                                  • fr-CA
                                  • fr-CH
                                  • fr-FR
                                  • fr-LU
                                  • fr-MC
                                  • fy-NL
                                  • ga-IE
                                  • gd-GB
                                  • gl-ES
                                  • gsw-FR
                                  • gu-IN
                                  • ha-Latn-NG
                                  • he-IL
                                  • hi-IN
                                  • hr-BA
                                  • hr-HR
                                  • hsb-DE
                                  • hu-HU
                                  • hy-AM
                                  • id-ID
                                  • ig-NG
                                  • ii-CN
                                  • is-IS
                                  • it-CH
                                  • it-IT
                                  • iu-Cans-CA
                                  • iu-Latn-CA
                                  • ja-JP
                                  • ka-GE
                                  • kk-KZ
                                  • kl-GL
                                  • km-KH
                                  • kn-IN
                                  • kok-IN
                                  • ko-KR
                                  • ky-KG
                                  • lb-LU
                                  • lo-LA
                                  • lt-LT
                                  • lv-LV
                                  • mi-NZ
                                  • mk-MK
                                  • ml-IN
                                  • mn-MN
                                  • mn-Mong-CN
                                  • moh-CA
                                  • mr-IN
                                  • ms-BN
                                  • ms-MY
                                  • mt-MT
                                  • nb-NO
                                  • ne-NP
                                  • nl-BE
                                  • nl-NL
                                  • nn-NO
                                  • nso-ZA
                                  • oc-FR
                                  • or-IN
                                  • pa-IN
                                  • pl-PL
                                  • prs-AF
                                  • ps-AF
                                  • pt-BR
                                  • pt-PT
                                  • qut-GT
                                  • quz-BO
                                  • quz-EC
                                  • quz-PE
                                  • rm-CH
                                  • ro-RO
                                  • ru-RU
                                  • rw-RW
                                  • sah-RU
                                  • sa-IN
                                  • se-FI
                                  • se-NO
                                  • se-SE
                                  • si-LK
                                  • sk-SK
                                  • sl-SI
                                  • sma-NO
                                  • sma-SE
                                  • smj-NO
                                  • smj-SE
                                  • smn-FI
                                  • sms-FI
                                  • sq-AL
                                  • sr-Cyrl-BA
                                  • sr-Cyrl-CS
                                  • sr-Cyrl-ME
                                  • sr-Cyrl-RS
                                  • sr-Latn-BA
                                  • sr-Latn-CS
                                  • sr-Latn-ME
                                  • sr-Latn-RS
                                  • sv-FI
                                  • sv-SE
                                  • sw-KE
                                  • syr-SY
                                  • ta-IN
                                  • te-IN
                                  • tg-Cyrl-TJ
                                  • th-TH
                                  • tk-TM
                                  • tn-ZA
                                  • tr-TR
                                  • tt-RU
                                  • tzm-Latn-DZ
                                  • ug-CN
                                  • uk-UA
                                  • ur-PK
                                  • uz-Cyrl-UZ
                                  • uz-Latn-UZ
                                  • vi-VN
                                  • wo-SN
                                  • xh-ZA
                                  • yo-NG
                                  • zh-CN
                                  • zh-HK
                                  • zh-MO
                                  • zh-SG
                                  • zh-TW
                                  • zu-ZA
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