My translated pages are categorized as subpages of the originals / Importance of hreflang tags
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Hi there
We have a website that is originally in German, but has an English translation for all pages.
I recently created a crawl map for it, which showed that all our translated pages are indexed as subpages of the German originals. I wonder if this is normal, or if it will have a negative impact on our SEO.If they are subpages, will Google still index and rank them with the same importance as the originals?
If not, what can I do to make them standalone pages and not subpages?Also, we have a few issues with hreflang tags that we cannot fix easily as our CMS does not give us a flexible option for editing our code. I wonder how much impact hreflang tags have on our ranking and if we can just disregards these issues?
We use Hubspot as a CMS, if that matters.
Thanks for your feedback!
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Hreflang will help guide Google to understand the association of the pages. Rather than add another sitemap for the English pages, I recommend updating your current sitemap to include hreflang tags to the english content.
Guide here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2620865?hl=en
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