International websites : hreflang
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Hi,
i'm looking for good examples with 'href lang' tag (rel="alternate" hreflang="x")
Have you examples of websites with this tag?
Thanks
D.
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Found one: freelancer.com
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.com/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-AU</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.com.au/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-NZ</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.co.nz/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.co.nz/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-GB</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.co.uk/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-HK</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.hk/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.hk/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-SG</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.sg/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-PH</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.ph/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.ph/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">de</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.de/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">de-DE</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.de/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.de/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-CA</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.ca/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-ZA</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.co.za/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.co.za/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-IN</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.in/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-JM</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.com.jm/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com.jm/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.com.es/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-ES</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.com.es/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com.es/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-MX</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.mx/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-PE</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.com.pe/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com.pe/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-EC</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.ec/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-CL</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.cl/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.cl/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-PK</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.pk/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">id</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.co.id/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.co.id/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">id-ID</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.co.id/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">en-BD</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.com.bd/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com.bd/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">es-UY</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.uy/" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">pt</a>" href="[http://www.freelancer.pt/](view-source:http://www.freelancer.pt/)" />
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">alternate</a>" hreflang="<a class="attribute-value">pt-PT</a>" href="http://www.freelancer.pt/" />
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What is weird is that Wikipedia doesn't use it and still ranks 1st for almost every keyword while having alternates in almost every language for every page.
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Hello,
The hreflang attribute is used with the link element to provide an alternative page in another language.
The simplest way of using it is to be adding a link to the header of your page to give them alternative urls to the same content in another language.Here is a list of language attributes you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Decoding_table
You should read google's webmasters tip regarding this topic to get a better understanding: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en.
I actually couldn't find any sites right now that use this technique.
--
Jørgen Juel
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