How to add, test and validate Hreflang Tags: An Hreflang Implementation Guide for Success

Learn how to effectively implement hreflang annotations in internationally targeted Websites when doing an International SEO process! In this episode of #CrawlingMondays Aleyda goes through the most important criteria to take into consideration to set hreflang tags to specify your pages relevant countries and languages for success.

1:52 Why are hreflang annotations important?
8:33 How to generate hreflang tags?
16:38 What tools use to generate correct hreflang tags?
17:56 How to validate hreflang annotations?
20:26 How to monitor hreflang annotations?

#hreflang #hreflangseo #internationalseo

[idrisadeleye]

This woman gives me joy. Lol. "I am NoT that smart".... Yet, One of the smartest heads out there

[nassimbojji]

Thanks, Aleyda for these great clarifications about the Hreflang

[aymenhd]

Thank you so much, explained very well, and has a lot of infos and useful websites

[manikantab]

Hey Aleyda,

Nice Presentation.

I have a doubt, say I have a US page and i don't have a alternate version of this page.
Can i do self reference hreflang for this page using hreflang=en-us

[stefanpfadt]

Great tutorial ;)
Does the HTML code snipped need to be on every page or is it enough to include it once in the code so that it will be accepted for all pages on the website?

[enmanueltirado]

Hi Aleyda. Great video!
I have a couple of follow up questions:
1. Could you please point out to Google's recommendation on NOT using underscore in the lang-country declaration?
2. Have you heard word from Google on whether is it recommended to use a mix a two implementation methods (HTML tags and XML)? I know, common sense dictates that we should stick to only one. However, I'm dealing with a project that necessarily requires a both methods at the same time.
Thoughts? Thank you!

[inducto]

Thanks for the video.
Can you please comment over the use of "x-default" hreflang tag? (for websites with a single language and no specific country to target)
- "single-default language", when there only one language used
- and internationally oriented tag (without targeting of a specific country)

It seems that "x-default" hreflang tag is not being accepted by google, not sure if it's indeed so